Radical 212, ?, ?, or ? meaning "dragon", is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon, and refers to a version of the dragon in each East Asian culture:
- Chinese dragon, Lóng in Chinese
- Japanese dragon, Ry? or Tatsu in Japanese
- Korean dragon, Ryong or Yong in Korean
- Vietnamese dragon, R?ng in Vietnamese
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 there are only 14 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
It occurs as a phonetic complement in some fairly common Chinese characters, for example ? = "deaf", which is composed of ? "dragon" and the "ear" ? radical, ?, pronounced similarly to ?: "dragon gives sound, ear gives meaning".
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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
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