Radical 212, 龍, 龙, or 竜 meaning "

dragon A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...

", is one of the two of the 214

Kangxi radical The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...

s that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon,龍: bottom left: jaws (open downwards); top left: back of head; right side: body and legs; right bottommost stroke: tail and refers to a version of the

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 A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...

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 14 characters (out of 40,000) are under this

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. 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

* *Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,

References

External links

Unihan Database - U+9F8D
{{Kangxi Radicals

212 Year 212 (Roman numerals, CCXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asper and Camilius (or, less frequently, year 965 '' ...