| 龙门山断层 |
Lóng mén shān duàn céng |
Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin |
| 龙 |
Lóng |
surname Long |
| 龙 |
lóng |
Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur |
| 龙门 |
Lóng mén |
see 龙门县 / see 龙门石窟 / see 龙门山 / Dragon Gate, mythical gate at the crest of a waterfall over which a carp may leap to become a dragon; (fig.) gateway to success or greatness |
| 龙门山 |
Lóng mén shān |
Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line / Mt Longmen in Shandong / Mt Longmen in Henan |
| 门 |
Mén |
surname Men |
| 门 |
mén |
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇) / valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure / way to do sth; knack; method; approach / family; household; lineage / (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic) / (bound form) class; category; division; phylum / classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc / (suffix) -gate (scandal) |
| 山 |
Shān |
surname Shan |
| 山 |
shān |
mountain; hill (CL:座) / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on |
| 断 |
duàn |
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly |
| 断层 |
duàn céng |
(geology) fault (CL:道) / (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill) / (tomography) cross-sectional |
| 层 |
céng |
to pile on top of one another / layer; stratum / floor (of a building); story / (math.) sheaf / classifier for layers |