IDENTITY
龙lóngdragon
HSK 4Top 600
CORE MEANING
dragon
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.dragonHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 龙dragon radical (lóng)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- ⿻尤丿
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
恐龙kǒnglóngdinosaur
龙舟lóngzhōudragon boat
Graded examples
端午节有龙舟比赛。Duānwǔjié yǒu lóngzhōu bǐsài.HSK4
There are dragon boat races on the Dragon Boat Festival.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 尤
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LEARNING
Memory aid
The twisting body of the great dragon. (Simplified from 龍.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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