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郎
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Definitions
- 1. (arch.) minister
- 2. official
- 3. noun prefix denoting function or status
- 4. a youth
Example Sentences
1 shown誰比較高,肯還是太 郎 ?
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Words Containing 郎
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story)
HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998
boyfriend
ancient official title
(coll.) tomcat
(Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards
KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
Abraham (name)
lit. Yelang thinks highly of itself (idiom)
talented man and beautiful woman
Jenny Lang Ping (1960-), Chinese volleyball player, coach of USA women's national team since 2005
call girl
SHIBA Ryotarō (1923-1996), Japanese author of historical novels
your esteemed son (honorific)
doctor (Chinese medicine)
Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom)
bridegroom
to stick one leg over the other (when sitting)
ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister from 2008
TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger
franc
brave man, willing to risk his life
Langxi county in Xuancheng 宣城[xuān chéng], Anhui
one leg over the other (legs crossed)
sb who purchases a public post
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty
my husband and master (archaic)
islets of Langerhans (medicine)
men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb)
Lang Lang (1982-), Chinese concert pianist
Swiss franc (currency)
(coll.) feeder pig
Dolan, a people of the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, also known as 多郎
see 屎蚵螂[shǐ kē láng]
Rankine cycle (engineering)
Erlangshen, Chinese deity
Langxi county in Xuancheng 宣城[xuān chéng], Anhui
Langevin (name)
ideal husband; Mr. Right
pit babe
(slang) to ask for money
young woman
Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) Jesuit who served as Qing court painter for 50 years
to stick one leg over the other (when sitting)
Oe Kenzaburo (1935-) Japanese novelist and 1994 Nobel laureate
Ishihara Shintarō (1932-), Japanese author and politician, governor of Tokyo 1999-2012
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
Momotaro or Peach Boy, the hero of a Japanese folk tale
best man
see 二郎神[èr láng shén]
small barbarian kingdom in southern China during the Han dynasty