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Meaning of Yonglong | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/jɔŋ.lɔŋ/

Definitions

  1. era name used by Liang Shidu (618–628)
  2. A town in Jingshan, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
  3. era name used by Emperor Gaozong of Tang (680–681)
  4. era name used by Wang Yanxi, emperor of Min (939–943)

Examples

“The Wanfotong cave was built in commemoration of the pious deeds of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Ze-tian and their sons by imperial edict in the first year of Yonglong (680) by eunuch Yao Shen-piao and monk Chi Yun, who was in charge of the rites at court.”
“Another inscription, dated to the second year of the Yonglong period (681), found in the Bingling cave 54, in Gansu province, reports Wang Xuance’s pious act of installing images of the Buddha and bodhisattvas.”
“After ruling the kingdom [of Silla] for twenty-one years, the great king [Munmu] passed away in the second year of the Tang Yung-lung era. . . . Following the king’s command, he was entombed atop a great boulder on the Eastern Sea.”
“Directior Yao Shenbiao and Meditation Master (Zhi)yun of the Palace Chapel completed the Fifteen Thousand Honorable Images Shrine on the thirtieth day of the eleventh month of the inaugural year of the Yonglong era of the Great Tang (December 26, 680)”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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