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龍

dragon
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingリュウ、リョウ、ロウ
Kun readingたつ
Grade 10KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. dragon
    龍は空想の動物だ。A dragon is a creature of fancy.tatoeba
    景初四年銘盤龍鏡Banryu-kyo Mirror with the Date "Fourth Year of Jingchu"wiki
  2. imperial
  3. dragon (old)RtK
  1. dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon)
  2. naga
  3. semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology
  4. promoted rook

Radicals and components

Radical龍dragon
Components
How it's built
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Compound words

坂本龍馬関係資料
Sakamoto Ryoma Related Materialswiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

「鼻」は長い鼻をもつ僧侶の苦労を描いた芥川龍之介の小説です
「はな」はながいはなをもつそうりょのくろうをえがいたあくたがわりゅうのすけのしょうせつです“The Nose” is a story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about the troubles of a monk with a long nose.
おすすめの黒烏龍茶はありますか。
おすすめのくろうーろんちゃはありますか。Do you have a black oolong tea you'd recommend?

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 龍

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step