Radical 212

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:

龍
Radical 212 (U+2FD3)
龍 (U+9F8D) "dragon"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:lóng
Bopomofo:ㄌㄨㄥˊ
Wade–Giles:lung2
Cantonese Yale:lung4
Jyutping:lung4
Japanese Kana:リョー ・リュー ryō, ryū
たつ tatsu
Sino-Korean:룡 ryong
Names
Japanese name(s):竜 ryū
Hangul:용 yong
Stroke order animation
Radical 212（龍）in seal script

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 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".

Characters with Radical 212
strokescharacter
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𪚥

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

References
  1. 龍: bottom left: jaws (open downwards); top left: back of head; right side: body and legs; right bottommost stroke: tail
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