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龍人

简龙人 · 繁龍人

Mandarin · pinyin Lóng rén

Dragon Man, the nickname of the individual whose fossilized cranium was discovered in Heilongjiang in 1933, thought to be a Denisovan 丹尼索瓦人 Dān ní suǒ wǎ rén or a new species of extinct human, Homo longi

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龍: Look up this written character
人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
龙: lóng · dragon; symbolic of emperor

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2–2 · Long2 ren2

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