龍

龍 (radical 212, 龍+0, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜月卜尸心 (YBYSP), four-corner 0121₁, composition ⿰𦚏⿹弓冫)

1. Kangxi radical #212, ⿓.

• 瀧, 爖, 瓏, 朧, 儱, 嚨, 壠, 巄, 徿, 攏, 曨, 櫳, 矓, 礲, 蠬, 襱, 豅, 贚, 躘, 鑨, 隴, 龓, 䆍, 䌬, 䏊, 䡁, 䪊, 䮾
• 𢤱, 𤜆, 𤳽, 𦢫, 𦪽, 𧲖, 𨏠, 𨳁, 𩟭, 𪐖, 𪚒, 𪚓, 𪚖, 𪚗, 𪚘, 𪚝, 𫜱, 𫲘, 𮙇, 𣰵, 𧾪, 𩙘, 𪈗, 𪚤, 𫑰, 𫦞, 𫿤, 𪚚, 𦒮, 龖, 𪚟
• 寵, 巃, 竉, 籠, 蘢, 靇, 龕, 龗, 䶬, 𠖥, 𦌼, 𩰀, 𪔷, 𪚕, 𪚙, 𪚡, 𪚣, 𫅍, 𡃡, 𡾩, 𢤲, 𢸭, 𤮨, 𦪿, 𨇘, 𪎁, 𪚑, 𪚔, 𪚛, 𪚜, 𪚞, 𪚠, 𪚢, 𮯚
• 聾, 襲, 龔, 壟, 礱, 蠪, 讋, 驡, 鸗, 龏, 龑, 龒, 㰍, 龘, 龎, 龐, 𤼃

• 竜 (Japanese shinjitai, also an ancient form of 龍) - See also its derived characters
• 龙 (Simplified Chinese) - See also its derived characters

• KangXi: page 1536, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48818
• Dae Jaweon: page 2076, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4803, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F8D

• Unihan data for U+F9C4

Historical forms of the character 龍
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – originally a serpent with prominent whiskered mouth and eyes.

Current form developed in large seal script, with serpent’s body on right (tail at upper right, legs on right), whiskered/fanged mouth at lower left, and eyes/crown at upper left. Left side was subsequently simplified and abstracted, with some influence of 立 and ⺼/月. Note that 竜 existed as a traditional variant dating back to large seal script, and figures a dragon seen face-on, rather than curled around.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”). Cognate with Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon; thunder”). The STEDT database also lists 隆 (OC *ɡ·ruːŋ, “thunder; sound of thunder”) and 雹 (OC *bruːɡ, “hail”) as cognates. Also compare 靐 (OC *brɯŋs, “sound of thunder”) and 霹靂 (OC *pʰeːɡ reːɡ, “thunder”).

This word is found in many languages of the region. Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *-roŋ (“dragon”) (White Hmong zaj), Proto-Vietic *-roːŋ (“dragon”) (Vietnamese rồng), Vietnamese thuồng luồng (“serpent-like monster”), Khmer រោង (roong, “year of the dragon”), Thai มะโรง (má-roong, “dragon; year of the dragon”), Lao ມະໂລງ (ma lōng, “year of the dragon”), perhaps also Old Turkic *-lan‎ (*-lan, “suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal”) (Turkish aslan (“lion”), kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”)).

龍

1. (mythology) Chinese dragon
2. (mythology) Western dragon
3. (figuratively) emperor; sovereign; king; of the emperor
4. (figuratively) chief; hero; towering figure
5. (by extension) dragon-shaped object; long object
6. (by extension) dragon-adorned object
7. (zoology, paleontology) extinct reptilian creature; -saur

   恐龍 / 恐龙  ―  kǒnglóng  ―  dinosaur

   翼手龍 / 翼手龙  ―  yìshǒulóng  ―  pterodactyl

8. (Min Dong) to become clear-minded; to be revitalised
9. A surname​.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 竜)

1. dragon

• Go-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りゆう (ryū, historical)}
• Kan-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りよう (ryou, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ろう (rō)
• Kun: たつ (tatsu, 龍)
• Nanori: かみ (kami); きみ (kimi); しげみ (shigemi); とお (tō); とおる (tōru); めぐむ (megumu)

• Kyūjitai; simplified into 竜 as isolated shinjitai kanji, but used in Jōyō characters 襲 and 籠 (latter Jōyō as of 2010).
  • Although it is officially simplified into 竜, 龍 is often used instead for certain words for its aesthetics (such as in literary contexts or for spelling words borrowed from Chinese). For example, 烏龍茶 is rarely spelled as 烏竜茶.

龍 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 竜, hiragana たつ, rōmaji tatsu)

1. dragon
   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 8, page 1:

     龍 文字集畧云、龍、力鍾反、太都、○下總本有和名二字、神代紀齋明紀同訓、按太都 [...]

龍 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 竜, hiragana りゅう, rōmaji ryū)

1. dragon

龍 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 竜, hiragana りゅう, rōmaji Ryū)

1. A male given name
2. A surname​.

• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.

• ドラゴン (doragon)

龍 • (ryong>yong, rong>nong, mang, chong)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 룡>용, 롱>농, 망, 총 (McCune–Reischauer: ryong>yong, rong>nong, mang, ch'ong, Yale: lyong>yong, long>nong, mang, chong)
  • Name (hangeul): 용

1. dragon
2. king

• 청룡 (cheongnyong)(靑龍) Green dragon
• 용문 (yongmun)(龍門) dragon gate (folk tale : If snake passes this gate, it becomes a dragon)
• 용왕 (yong-wang)(龍王) the Dragon King
• 용산 (yongsan)(龍山) Yongsan city
• 용인 (yong-in)(龍仁) Yongin city
• 용수철 (yongsucheol)(龍鬚鐵) spring
• 등용문 (deung-yongmun)(登龍門) gateway
• 용두사미 (yongdusami)(龍頭蛇尾) anticlimax, dragon head and snake tail
• 공룡 (gongnyong)(恐龍) dinosaur

Coblin, reconstructing the Pai-lang pronunciation as *gljung, suggests that it derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river, gorge”) and retains its consonant cluster, which was lost in Proto-Lolo-Burmese. Compare Tibetan ལྗོངས (ljongs), Chinese 谷 (OC *kloːɡ).

龍 (*gljung)

1. gorge

• W. South Coblin, "A New Study of the Pai-lang Songs" (1979), Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 12:179–216
• Christopher I. Beckwith, "The Pai-lang songs: The earliest texts in a Tibeto-Burman language and their Late Old Chinese transcriptions" (2008), in Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages III

龍 (long)

1. dragon