Radical 212
Chinese character radical
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Radical 212, 龍, 龙, or 竜 meaning "dragon" (龍部), 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,[a] 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 or Long in Sino-Vietnamese
| 龍 | |
|---|---|
Radical 212 (U+2FD3)
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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. It is also a common surname.
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
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
Notes
- 龍: bottom left: jaws (open downwards); top left: back of head; right side: body and legs; right bottommost stroke: tail
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