Radical 212

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(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
Stroke order animation
Radical 212(龍)in seal script

Radical 212, , , or 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 = "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".

  1. ^ : bottom left: jaws (open downwards); top left: back of head; right side: body and legs; right bottommost stroke: tail