lóng
dragon
Pictograph of a dragon curled up. The simplified character 龙 was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 龍.
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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernComponent uses
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 21.9926% of movies
1122nd most common character in movies
696th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9F99 |
Sources
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