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| 龍 (U+9F8D) "dragon" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | lóng | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄌㄨㄥˊ | |||
| Wade–Giles: | lung2 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | lung4 | |||
| Jyutping: | lung4 | |||
| Japanese Kana: | リョー ・リュー ryō, ryū たつ tatsu | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 룡 ryong | |||
| Names | ||||
| Japanese name(s): | 竜 ryū | |||
| Hangul: | 용 yong | |||
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Radical 212, 龍, 龙, or 竜 meaning "dragon", is one of the two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon,[1] and refers to a version of the dragon in each East Asian culture:
It may also refer to the Dragon as it appears in the Chinese zodiac.
In the Kangxi Dictionary 14 characters (out of 40,000) are under this radical.
It occurs as a phonetic complement in some fairly common Chinese characters, for example 聾 = "deaf", which is composed of 龍 "dragon" and the "ear" 耳 radical, "a word with meaning related to ears and pronounced similarly to 龍": "dragon gives sound, ear gives meaning".
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| without additional strokes | 龍 |
| 2 additional strokes | 龎 |
| 3 additional strokes | 龏 龐 |
| 4 additional strokes | 龑 |
| 5 additional strokes | 龒 |
| 6 additional strokes | 龓 龔 龕 |
| 16 additional strokes | 龖 |
| 17 additional strokes | 龗 |
| 32 additional strokes | 龘 |
| 48 additional strokes | 𪚥 |
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See also: Kangxi radicals | |
