Translation of "dragon"
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:26 pm
I have a friend who was sent a gift from China. The gift has an image of a dragon on it, and a single kanji character. They were told the character meant "dragon" or "wood dragon". I've searched through all the kanji dictionaries I could find and I could *not* find the character they have. I found other characters for "dragon", "imperial dragon", the dragon zodiac sign etc. Most of them are pretty involved ... a reasonably large stroke count.
The character they have has a stroke count of only 5. I'll try to describe the character (I can maybe try drawing it and putting it on my website if that would be more useful): the character has three parts:
1. a "cross" character occupying the left and top of the character box
2. a "tick" in the top right
3. a two stroke radical in the lower right which look like a more "flowed" version of: http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/bu ... w=frequent
In fact, the character in question looks very much like:
http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/vi ... se,english
but with an additional "tick" in the top right, near the intersection of the two strokes of the top and left component.
Any ideas on what this is?
Mark
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The character they have has a stroke count of only 5. I'll try to describe the character (I can maybe try drawing it and putting it on my website if that would be more useful): the character has three parts:
1. a "cross" character occupying the left and top of the character box
2. a "tick" in the top right
3. a two stroke radical in the lower right which look like a more "flowed" version of: http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/bu ... w=frequent
In fact, the character in question looks very much like:
http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/vi ... se,english
but with an additional "tick" in the top right, near the intersection of the two strokes of the top and left component.
Any ideas on what this is?
Mark
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