Kanji1 / 16
龍 kanji
dragon, imperial
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
On readings
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Kun readings
たつ
Variant forms
竜龒Words with 龍
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —龍が如くYakuza (video game series); Like a Dragon
- —龍天に登るrise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)
- —龍dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
- —飛龍flying dragon
- —龍宮Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Tarō (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)
- —龍骨keel (of a ship); Fossilia ossis mastodi (traditional Chinese medicine); dragon bone; longgu
- —龍車imperial carriage
- —龍胆gentian (Gentiana scabra var. buergeri); autumn bellflower
- —龍舟dragon boat (long 22-person canoe used for racing)
- —龍神dragon god; dragon king; naga
- —龍顔Imperial countenance; face of the Emperor
- —龍虎dragon and tiger; two mighty rivals
- —恐龍dinosaur
- —土龍mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
- —魚龍ichthyosaur
- —龍王Dragon King; promoted rook
- —龍脳borneol (crystalline turpenoid alcohol)
- —龍眼longan (Euphoria longana)
- —剣龍stegosaur (any dinosaur of infraorder Stegosauria)
- —翼龍pterosaur