Radical 212

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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 tatsu
Kanji: 竜 ryū
Hangul: 용 yong
Sino-Korean: 룡 ryong
seal script of radical 212
Dragon siddham Sanskrit

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".

Characters with Radical 212

strokes character
without additional strokes 龍
2 additional strokes 龎
3 additional strokes 龏龐
4 additional strokes 龑
5 additional strokes 龒
6 additional strokes 龓龔龕
16 additional strokes 龖
17 additional strokes 龗
32 additional strokes龘

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

External links

Look up 龍 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary
1 stroke
1 一 2 丨 3 丶 4 丿 5 乙 6 亅
2 strokes
7 二 8 亠 9 人 10 儿 11 入 12 八 13 冂 14 冖 15 冫 16 几 17 凵 18 刀 19 力 20 勹 21 匕 22 匚 23 匸 24 十 25 卜 26 卩 27 厂 28 厶 29 又
3 strokes
30 口 31 囗 32 土 33 士 34 夂 35 夊 36 夕 37 大 38 女 39 子 40 宀 41 寸 42 小 43 尢 44 尸 45 屮 46 山 47 巛 48 工 49 己 50 巾 51 干 52 幺 53 广 54 廴 55 廿 56 弋 57 弓 58 彐 59 彡 60 彳
4 strokes
61 心 62 戈 63 戶 64 手 65 支 66 攴 67 文 68 斗 69 斤 70 方 71 无 72 日 73 曰 74 月 75 木 76 欠 77 止 78 歹 79 殳 80 毋 81 比 82 毛 83 氏 84 气 85 水 86 火 87 爪 88 父 89 爻 90 爿 91 片 92 牙 93 牛 94 犬
5 strokes
95 玄 96 玉 97 瓜 98 瓦 99 甘 100 生 101 用 102 田 103 疋 104 疒 105 癶 106 白 107 皮 108 皿 109 目 110 矛 111 矢 112 石 113 示 114 禸 115 禾 116 穴 117 立
6 strokes
118 竹 119 米 120 糸 121 缶 122 网 123 羊 124 羽 125 老 126 而 127 耒 128 耳 129 聿 130 肉 131 臣 132 自 133 至 134 臼 135 舌 136 舛 137 舟 138 艮 139 色 140 艸 141 虍 142 虫 143 血 144 行 145 衣 146 西
7 strokes
147 見 148 角 149 言 150 谷 151 豆 152 豕 153 豸 154 貝 155 赤 156 走 157 足 158 身 159 車 160 辛 161 辰 162 辵 163 邑 164 酉 165 釆 166 里
8 strokes
167 金 168 長 169 門 170 阜 171 隶 172 隹 173 雨 174 青 175 非
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
201 黃 202 黍 203 黑 204 黹
13 strokes
205 黽 206 鼎 207 鼓 208 鼠
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 radicals

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