Radical 212, 龍, 龙, or 竜 meaning "dragon", is one of the two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon,[1] 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.
In the Kangxi Dictionary 14 characters (out of 40,000) are 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, "a word with meaning related to ears and pronounced similarly to 龍": "dragon gives sound, ear gives meaning".
strokes | character | |
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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 | |
48 additional strokes |