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龍 Radical 212 (U+2FD3) 龍 (U+9F8D) "dragon" Pinyin: lóng Bopomofo: ㄌㄨㄥˊ Wade–Giles: lung2 Jyutping: lung4 Cantonese Yale: lung4 Hiragana: リョウ ・リュウ ryō, ryū
たつ tatsuKanji: 竜 ryū Hangul: 용 yong Sino-Korean: 룡 ryong 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 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. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0896597741.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7561902042
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Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary 1 stroke 2 strokes 3 strokes 4 strokes 5 strokes 6 strokes 7 strokes 8 strokes 9 strokes 176 面 177 革 178 韋 179 韭 180 音 181 頁 182 風 183 飛 184 食 185 首 186 香10 strokes 187 馬 188 骨 189 高 190 髟 191 鬥 192 鬯 193 鬲 194 鬼11 strokes 195 魚 196 鳥 197 鹵 198 鹿 199 麥 200 麻12 strokes 13 strokes 14 strokes 209 鼻 210 齊15 strokes 211 齒16 strokes 212 龍 213 龜17 strokes 214 龠See also: List of Kangxi radicalsCategories:- Kangxi radicals
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