漢字Kanji
竜: dragon, imperial
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
10 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
リュウryuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 竜りゅうdragon (esp. a Chinese dragon)
- 恐竜きょうりゅう
- 竜王りゅうおうDragon King
- 登竜門とうりゅうもんgateway to success
- 竜宮りゅうぐうPalace of the Dragon King
たつtatsu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 竜巻たつまきtornado; whirlwind; waterspout
Also read リョウ, ロウ, いせ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
竜
Also built on dragon (竜)
Also read リュウ
9 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 龙 · traditional 龍 · lóng
Three different forms: Japanese 竜, simplified 龙, traditional 龍.
- Simplified
- 龙 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 龍 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lóng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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