lóng
dragon
Pictograph of a dragon curled up.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[mə]-roŋ | ljowng | lóng | dragon |
*mˤroŋ | maewng | máng | variegated |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 21.9926% of movies
1122nd most common character in movies
696th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9F8D |
Shuowen | “龍,鱗蟲之長。能幽能明,能細能巨,能短能長,春分而登天,秋分而潛淵。从肉,飛之形,童省聲。” |
Sources
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