龍

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/龍

Etymology
Coblin, reconstructing the Bailang pronunciation as, suggests that it derives from and retains its consonant cluster, which was lost in 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) gorge

Glyph origin
– originally a serpent with prominent whiskered mouth and eyes.

Current form developed in large seal script, with serpent’s body on right (tail at upper right, legs on right), whiskered/fanged mouth at lower left, and eyes/crown at upper left. Left side was subsequently simplified and abstracted, with some influence of and /. Note that existed as a traditional variant dating back to large seal script, and figures a dragon seen face-on, rather than curled around.

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬. The STEDT database also lists and  as cognates. Also compare and.

This word is found in many languages of the region. Compare,  (🇨🇬), , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, perhaps also.

Definitions

 * 1)  Chinese dragon
 * 2)  Western dragon
 * 3)  emperor; sovereign; king; of the emperor
 * 4)  chief; hero; towering figure
 * 5)  dragon-shaped object; long object
 * 6)  dragon-adorned object
 * 7)  extinct reptilian creature; -saur
 * 8)  to become clear-minded; to be revitalised
 * 9)  goal
 * 10)  goalkeeper
 * 11)  queue; line
 * 12)  money
 * 13)  snake meat
 * 14)  a hundred of a currency designation
 * 1)  money
 * 2)  snake meat
 * 3)  a hundred of a currency designation
 * 1)  a hundred of a currency designation

Descendants
Others:

Usage notes

 * This kanji is the form of simplified, itself as isolated  kanji, but is used in Jōyō characters  and , with the latter categorized as Jōyō as of 2010.
 * Although it is officially simplified into, is often used instead for certain words for its aesthetics (such as in literary contexts or for spelling words borrowed from Chinese). For example,  is rarely spelled as.

Etymology 1
From.

Pronunciation

 * Some dictionaries classify this reading as instead of.

Noun

 * : a Chinese dragon
 * : : a Western dragon
 * :  dragon king; promoted rook
 * 1) a  with a Chinese dragon design

Affix

 * : dragon
 * : hero
 * : imperial
 * : dinosaur

Proper noun

 * 1)   the constellation Draco

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * : a Chinese dragon

Affix

 * : dragon
 * : hero
 * : imperial

Etymology 3
→

From.

Noun

 * : a Japanese dragon

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Possibly from the verb.

Noun

 * 1) a Japanese dragon

Usage notes
Also used once phonetically as a for.