| 龙门断层 |
Lóng mén 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 |
Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州, Guangdong / mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon |
| 门 |
Mén |
surname Men |
| 门 |
mén |
gate / door / CL:扇 / gateway / doorway / CL:个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) |
| 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 |
fault (geology) / CL:道,个 / (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 |