lóng

grind

Components

Sound component
lóng dragon
Meaning component
shí stone

stone

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

grind Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangroːŋ
roːŋs

說文解字

䃺也。从石龍聲。天子之桷,椓而礱之。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica