Long (surname 龍りゅう)

龍りゅう

Stroke order of the Chinese surname Long (龍りゅう)
Romanization	Mandarin: Long, Lung Cantonese: Lung
Pronunciation	Mandarin: [ˈlʊ̌ŋ]
Origin
Meaning	Dragon

Long is the pinyin romanization of a few Chinese surnames. It includes 龍りゅう / 龙, which means "dragon" in Chinese, ranking number 80 on the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up from 108 in 1990. Another name transcribed as Long is 隆たかし, which is very rare in contemporary China. In Hong Kong, these names are romanized as Lung. In Wade-Giles it is also romanized as Lung.

Notable people

• Long Ju (simplified Chinese: 龙且; traditional Chinese: 龍りゅう且), military general who served Xiang Yu during the Chu–Han Contention (died 203 BC)
• Long Qingquan (龙清泉いずみ; 龍りゅう清きよし泉いずみ), Chinese weightlifter
• Long Yan, (龙艳; 龍りゅう艷つや; born 1973) Chinese former synchronized swimmer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Long Yun (龙云; 龍りゅう雲くも; 1884–1962), governor and warlord of the Chinese province of Yunnan
• James Lung Wai-man (龍りゅう緯ぬき汶) is the chairman of the Southern Democratic Alliance in Hong Kong
• Lung Ying-tai (龍りゅう應おう台だい; born 1952), Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic
• Long Lehao (龙乐豪ごう; born 1938), a Chinese aerospace engineer and scientist. fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Manyuan Long (龙漫远; 龍りゅう漫遠; Lóng Mànyuǎn), a Chinese American biologist.
• Long Yiming (龙以明あきら; born 1948), a Chinese mathematician, professor at Nankai University, fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Anders Ljungstedt (龙思泰やすし; 龍りゅう思おもえ泰やすし; Lóng Sītài; 23 March 1759 – 10 November 1835) Swedish merchant and historian
• Long Daoyi (龙道一いち; born 2003), Chinese diver