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:
- Chinese dragon, Lóng in Chinese
- Japanese dragon, Ryū or Tatsu in Japanese
- Korean dragon, Ryong or Yong in Korean
- Vietnamese dragon, Rồng in Vietnamese
龍 | ||
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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 | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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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".
Characters with Radical 212
editstrokes | character |
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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 |
Literature
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
References
edit- ^ 龍: bottom left: jaws (open downwards); top left: back of head; right side: body and legs; right bottommost stroke: tail
External links
editLook up 龍 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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