Radical 212
| 龍 | |
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| Radical 212 (U+2FD3) | |
| (U+9F8D) "dragon" | |
| Pinyin: | lóng |
| Bopomofo: | ㄌㄨㄥˊ |
| Wade–Giles: | lung2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | lung4 |
| Jyutping: | lung4 |
| Hiragana: | リョウ ・リュウ ryō, ryū たつ tatsu |
| Kanji: | 竜 ryū |
| Hangul: | 용 yong |
| Sino-Korean: | 룡 ryong |
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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:
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".
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