Characters › 龙
5 strokes · radical 龙 · HSK 4 · traditional 龍
16 strokes · HSK 4 · simplified 龙
How it is used
Not the treasure-hoarding dragon of European stories. This one commands rain and rivers; farmers prayed to it in a drought and emperors borrowed it as their emblem.
Custom and usage, in the settings where it applies.
Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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dragon
lóng — dragon
Radical 龙 · 5 strokes · HSK 4 · traditional 龍
16 strokes · HSK 4 · simplified 龙
How it is usedNot the treasure-hoarding dragon of European stories. This one commands rain and rivers; farmers prayed to it in a drought and emperors borrowed it as their emblem.