Radical 212, é¾Â, é¾Â, or ç« meaning "dragon" (é¾Âé¨), is one of the two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon, and refers to a version of the dragon in each East Asian culture:
It may also refer to the Dragon as it appears in the Chinese zodiac. It is also a common surname.
In the Kangxi Dictionary 14 characters (out of 40,000) are under this radical.
It occurs as a phonetic complement in some fairly common Chinese characters, for example <big>è¾</big> = "deaf", which is composed of é¾ "dragon" and the "ear" è³ radical, "a word with meaning related to ears and pronounced similarly to é¾Â: "dragon gives sound, ear gives meaning".