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{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Kangxi Radical Infobox|212|uni=9F8D
|meaning=dragon 
|pny=  lóng
|bopo= ㄌㄨㄥˊ
|wade= lung2
|jyutping= lung4
|yale= lung4
|hi= リョー ・リュー ryō, ryū<br/>たつ tatsu
|kanji= 竜 ryū
|hang= 용 yong
|hanja= 룡 ryong 
}}

[[File:龍-seal.svg|thumb|Radical 212（龍）in [[seal script]]]]

'''Radical 212''', '''龍''', '''龙''', or '''竜''' meaning '''"[[Chinese dragon|dragon]]"''', is one of the two of the 214  [[Kangxi radical]]s that are composed of 16 [[Stroke (CJK character)|strokes]]. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon,{{efn|<big>龍</big>: bottom left: jaws (open downwards); top left: back of head; right side: body and legs; right bottommost stroke: tail}} and refers to a version of the [[dragon]] in each [[East Asia]]n [[East Asian cultural sphere|culture]]:
*[[Chinese dragon]], ''Lóng'' in Chinese
*[[Japanese dragon]], ''Ryū'' or ''Tatsu'' in Japanese
*[[Korean dragon]], ''Ryong'' or ''Yong'' in Korean
*[[Vietnamese dragon]], ''Rồng'' in Vietnamese or ''Long'' in Sino-Vietnamese

It may also refer to the [[Dragon (zodiac)|Dragon]] as it appears in the [[Chinese zodiac]]. It is also [[Long (Chinese surname)|a common surname]].

In the [[Kangxi Dictionary]] 14 characters (out of 40,000) are under this [[Radical (Chinese characters)|radical]].

It occurs as a [[phonetic complement]] in some fairly common Chinese characters, for example <big>聾</big> = "[[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==
{|class="wikitable"
! strokes !! character
|----
| +0 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龍}}
|----
| +2 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龎}}
|----
| +3 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龏}} {{Linktext|龐}}
|----
| +4 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龑}}
|----
| +5 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龒}}
|----
| +6 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龓}} {{Linktext|龔}} {{Linktext|龕}}
|----
| +16 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龖}}
|----
| +17 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龗}}
|----
| +32 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|龘}}
|----
| +48 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|𪚥}}
|}
{{Main|wikt:Wiktionary:Chinese radical index 龍}}

== Literature ==
*{{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= [[Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc.)|Abbeville Press]] |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
*Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993, {{ISBN|978-7-5619-0204-2}}

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=9F8D Unihan Database - U+9F8D]
{{wiktionary|龍}}

{{Commons category|Radical 212}}
{{Kangxi Radicals}}

[[Category:Kangxi radicals|212]]
[[Category:Chinese dragons]]