Kanji1 / 16
龍 kanji
dragon, imperial
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
On readings
リュウリョウロウ
Kun readings
たつ
Variant forms
竜龒Words with 龍
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —龍笛dragon flute; medium-pitched bark-covered bamboo transverse flute with seven holes, used in gagaku
- —応龍Yinglong (dragon and rain deity)
- —龍脈long mai (feng shui); longmai; the air or energy flowing down from an undulating mountain range
- —龍穴dragon's den; auspicious place for a temple, town, etc. to be built (feng shui)
- —巨龍giant dragon
- —龍舌蘭agave; maguey; American aloe; century plant (Agave americana)
- —登龍門gateway to success
- —龍涎香ambergris
- —龍騎兵dragoon
- —守護龍guardian dragon
- —登り龍rising dragon; white saddle (Helvella crispa); elfin saddle; common helvel
- —龍宮城Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)
- —昇龍拳shoryuken (uppercut move in the Street Fighter series)
- —龍眼肉dried longan
- —龍吐水hand-operated fire pump; water pistol; squirt gun; water gun
- —雲龍水hand-operated fire pump
- —独眼龍one-eyed hero
- —龍の歯dragon's teeth
- —一間龍one-square-gap dragon; tactic involving checking the enemy king with a dragon one square horizontally away from it
- —九頭龍nine-headed dragon