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There are 14 total results for your rain dragon search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

蛟龍


蛟龙

see styles
jiāo lóng
    jiao1 long2
chiao lung
 kouryuu / koryu
    こうりゅう

More info & calligraphy:

Water Dragon / Rain Dragon
legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods
(1) mizuchi; mythical dragon-like beast, believed to ascend to the heavens through rain; (2) unfulfilled genius; dormant talent; (given name) Kōryū

see styles
jiāo
    jiao1
chiao
 mitsuchi
    みつち
    mizuchi
    みずち
a legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods; see also 蛟龍|蛟龙[jiao1 long2]
mizuchi; mythical dragon-like beast

see styles
 okami
    おかみ
(rare) water god; rain and snow god; dragon god; dragon king

蛟竜

see styles
 kouryou / koryo
    こうりょう
    kouryuu / koryu
    こうりゅう
(1) mizuchi; mythical dragon-like beast, believed to ascend to the heavens through rain; (2) unfulfilled genius; dormant talent

雨竜

see styles
 uryuu / uryu
    うりゅう
rain dragon; mythical beast with yellowish green skin and red tail; (place-name) Uryū

龍鉢


龙钵

see styles
lóng bō
    long2 bo1
lung po
A begging-bowl formerly used by a certain monk for obtaining rain, the dragon descending into his bowl.

おかみ

see styles
 okami
    おかみ
(obscure) water god; rain and snow god; dragon god; dragon king

娑伽羅


娑伽罗

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suō qié luó
    suo1 qie2 luo2
so ch`ieh lo
    so chieh lo
 Sagara
Sāgara. 娑竭羅 The ocean. The nāga king of the ocean palace north of Mt. Meru, possessed of priceless pearls; the dragon king of rain; his eight-year-old daughter instantly attained Buddhahood, v. the Lotus Sutra.

Variations:
応竜
応龍

see styles
 ouryuu / oryu
    おうりゅう
Yinglong; dragon and rain deity in Chinese mythology

Variations:
蛟竜
蛟龍

see styles
 kouryou; kouryuu / koryo; koryu
    こうりょう; こうりゅう
(1) mizuchi; mythical dragon-like beast, believed to ascend to the heavens through rain; (2) unfulfilled genius; dormant talent

Variations:
雨竜
螭竜

see styles
 amaryou; amaryuu / amaryo; amaryu
    あまりょう; あまりゅう
rain dragon; mythical beast with yellowish green skin and red tail

龍天に登る

see styles
 ryuutenninoboru / ryutenninoboru
    りゅうてんにのぼる
(expression) rise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)

りゅう天に登る

see styles
 ryuutenninoboru / ryutenninoboru
    りゅうてんにのぼる
(expression) rise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)

Variations:
龍天に登る
りゅう天に登る

see styles
 ryuutenninoboru / ryutenninoboru
    りゅうてんにのぼる
(expression) rise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 14 results for "rain dragon" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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