Talk:loong

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Questionable etymology and removal suggested[edit]

This word has two problems. First, it is not cohesive to the modern Chinese Pinyin system. When Chinese words became loanwords, they're romanized based on pinyin. For example, doufu, Gongfu, wuxia, etc. But this word exclusively adopted a different approach to spell, from long to loong. Second, I could not find any reliable citation of this word in Chinese-English dicts, which means the popularity among Chinese natives is questionable. That's why we don't have a solid citation for this word. Still, I saw several articles written by Chinese, prompting this word, but that's not enough. So, I'd suggest removing this entry page. --Ojz8239904 (talk) 12:26, 6 October 2021 (UTC)Reply