in English

lǒng
ridge between fields / crop row / mounded soil forming a ridge in a field / grave mound

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 壟, the traditional character: 垄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Bronze script: 壟 Bronze script 戰國中期偏晚
  • Small seal script: 壟 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 他反对垄断。

    He was opposed to monopolies.

  • 他曾经反对垄断。

    He was opposed to monopolies.

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