泷 meaning and stroke order
Raining; wet, soaked; rapids; a river in Guangdong
How to write 泷, stroke by stroke
8 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 泷
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- rapids
- waterfall
- torrential (rain)
How 泷 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Water.
氵 gives the meaning and 龙 hints at the sound.
Radical: 氵 (water), shared by 467 characters on this site.
How to remember 泷
泷 combines the water radical 氵 with 龙 (lóng, dragon), which also gives the sound. Picture a dragon of water crashing down a river as rapids or a waterfall.
泷 is a rare literary character meaning rapids, a waterfall, or pouring rain. You mostly see it in place names and in names borrowed from Japanese, where it means waterfall. Example: 泷水奔流 (lóng shuǐ bēn liú), the rapids rush onward.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes read 泷 as shuāng because of the place name 泷水 in Guangdong, where it is pronounced shuāng. The general reading is lóng. Also do not confuse it with 珑 (lóng, as in 玲珑), which has the jade radical 王 instead of water.
Questions about 泷
How many strokes are in 泷?
泷 is written with 8 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 泷 mean?
泷 (lóng) means raining; wet, soaked; rapids; a river in Guangdong.
How do you pronounce 泷?
泷 is pronounced lóng, in the second tone (rising).
What is the radical of 泷?
The radical of 泷 is 氵, which carries the idea of "water". Dictionaries list 泷 under this radical.
What is the traditional form of 泷?
The traditional form of 泷 is 瀧. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; 泷 is the simplified form used in mainland China and Singapore.
Is 泷 used in everyday modern Chinese?
Not really. For waterfall, people normally say 瀑布 (pùbù), and for rapids they say 急流 (jíliú). 泷 appears mainly in names and literary writing.
Why do I see 泷 in Japanese names?
In Japanese, the traditional form 瀧 is a common word for waterfall and appears in surnames like 滝沢 or 瀧本. In Chinese, these names are written with 泷 and read lóng, for example 泷泽 (Lóngzé).