The kanji 竜: meaning, readings and stroke order

竜

Meaning: dragon
On reading: リュウ ryuu
Kun reading: たつ tatsu
Strokes: 10
Radical: 龍 dragon
Level: Level 9 · senior high school
Old form: 龍

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: con rồng (long)
Japanese: りゅう。そらをとぶそうぞうのいきもの。
Korean: 용 (룡)
Chinese: 龙

Readings, words and example sentences

リュウ ryuu · on reading · less common

恐きょう竜りゅう
dinosaur
恐きょう竜りゅうの化石を見ました。
I saw dinosaur fossils.

たつ tatsu · kun reading · less common

竜たつ
dragon
十二支に 竜たつがいます。
The dragon is one of the twelve zodiac animals.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.