Radical 212
Appearance
龍 | ||
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龍 (U+9F8D) "dragon" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | lóng | |
Bopomofo: | ㄌㄨㄥˊ | |
Wade–Giles: | lung2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | lung4 | |
Jyutping: | lung4 | |
Japanese Kana: | リョウ ・リュウ 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 only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon, 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
It may also refer to the Dragon as it appears in the Chinese zodiac. It is used as the symbol for Tatsu, a roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, in California.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 14 characters (out of 40,000) to be found 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, 耳, pronounced similarly to 龍: "dragon gives sound, ear gives meaning".
Characters with Radical 212
strokes | character |
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without additional strokes | 龍 |
2 additional strokes | 龎 |
3 additional strokes | 龏龐龘 |
4 additional strokes | 龑 |
5 additional strokes | 龒 |
6 additional strokes | 龓龔龕 |
16 additional strokes | 龖 |
9 additional strokes | 龗 |
Literature
- 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
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