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龍

Unicode: U+9F8D

Pinyin: lóng lǒng máng

Definition

lóng:* 傳說中的神異動物，身長，有鱗爪，能興雲降雨。 * 封建時代用作帝王的象徵，也指帝王使用的東西。 * 比喻英雄才俊。 * 十二生肖之一，與地支辰相配。 * 指龍形的長條物。 水龍；火龍；車水馬龍。 * 指龍形的花紋：龍幣；龍盾；龍袞。 * 有龍形花紋或形狀像龍的東西的代稱。如：①龍杓。 * 駿馬。 * 星名。①東方七宿。 * 古代傳說中的官名。 * 由龍捲風形成的積雨雲。唐張籍 * 舊時堪輿家以山勢為龍。 * 古代煉丹術士稱水或汞。唐李咸用 * 龍泉劍的省稱，泛指精良的劍。唐施肩吾 * 萌。 * 通。 * 和。 * 水草名。即葒草。也作"蘢"。 * 通"寵（chŏng）"。榮耀。 * 古地名。春秋魯地。在今山東省泰安市。 * 通"壟"。①岡壟。 * 姓。 máng:* 通"尨"雜色

dragon; symbolic of emperor

Structure

龍 graph

Related substructures

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Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
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Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
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Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC