竜
竜 — rong, ryong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 두덕 롱, 용 룡
- Romanization
- rong, ryong
- English
- dragon; symbolic of emperor
- Mandarin
- lóng
- Japanese on'yomi
- リュウ, ロウ, ボウ, リョウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- たつ いせ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,195 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Variant forms
- 龍 龒
- Radical
- 立 (117, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7ADC
Japanese words with 竜
- 竜りゅう dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology
- 恐竜きょうりゅう dinosaur
- 竜王りゅうおう Dragon King; promoted rook
- 登竜門とうりゅうもん gateway to success
- 竜巻たつまき tornado; whirlwind; waterspout
- 竜宮りゅうぐう Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Tarō (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)
- 飛竜ペーロン dragon boat (long 22-person canoe used for racing); dragon boat race
- 竜骨りゅうこつ keel (of a ship); Fossilia ossis mastodi (traditional Chinese medicine); dragon bone
- 竜座りゅうざ Draco (constellation); the Dragon
- 竜車りゅうしゃ imperial carriage
- 竜胆りんどう gentian (Gentiana scabra var. buergeri); autumn bellflower
- 竜頭りゅうず crown (of a watch); stem; canon (of a bell)
Other hanja read “롱”
Other hanja with radical 立
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