龍 hanja, meaning dragon, read 룡 (ryong)
Reading
용 (yong) when it starts a word (see below).
Also read 용 (yong)
dragon; Kangxi radical 212
용 룡yong ryong
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 용 (yong) is the Korean for dragon, and 룡 (ryong) is the reading. Say 용 룡 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- ⿓ 212
- Beyond radical
- 0
- Mandarin
- lóng
- Japanese on
- ryuu
- Japanese kun
- tatsu
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 룡, but South Korean spelling writes 용 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
용
龍車 용거 yonggeo龍門 용문 yongmun龍尾 용미 yongmi
Elsewhere in the word
룡
飛龍 비룡 biryong恐龍 공룡 gongnyong靑龍 청룡 cheongnyong
Vocabulary
Words that use 龍
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
flying dragon
Character by character fly + dragon
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.