隆

• Physical/Spatial: High, lofty, or protruding. Often implies a swelling, bulging, or mounding effect (e.g., "swollen" or "protuberant" in anatomical contexts).
• Metaphorical: Prosperous, abundant, or flourishing; specifically abundance characterized by growth or reaching a peak.

• Adjective: Describing a state of height or prosperity.
• Verb: To rise, to swell, or to become prosperous.

• vs. 高 (gāo): 隆 suggests rounded fullness or a surge rather than simple linear height.
• vs. 盛 (shèng): While both mean "flourishing," 盛 typically evokes the image of a vessel filled to capacity, whereas 隆 evokes the image of a hill or wave rising upward.

• Fanqie reading: 力中.

// Tang-period reading: //liung.

• Z-variant: U+28E93 (graphical variation).

When encountering this glyph as a verb or adjective, determine if the context describes a static condition of height/wealth or an active process of increase and swelling.