沙龙
shā lóng · HSK 7
salon (loanword)
💇 sounds like the loanword salon: shā lóng ≈ sa-lon
沙龙 is a phonetic loan from French/English salon — 沙 shā (sand) + 龙 lóng (dragon) carry no meaning here, they just borrow the sounds sa-lon. Think of the gathering/styling salon.
龙 — simplified form of 龍; phonetic-pictographic
龙 is the simplified form of the traditional 龍, an ancient pictograph depicting a serpentine dragon with a crested head, scaly body, and curling tail. In oracle bone script it was clearly drawn as a mythical reptile. The character has always meant 'dragon', a powerful and auspicious creature in Chinese culture.