In ancient texts the character lóng also refers to a kind of large ant.
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蠪 is a rare classical character. In 山海经 ('Classic of Mountains and Seas') it names a fox-like creature with nine tails and nine heads; old dictionaries also gloss it as a type of ant. It does not appear in modern everyday Chinese.
虫 ('insect') at the bottom is the meaning-bearing radical, historically applied to many small or strange creatures — fitting for an ant or a fabled beast.
phonetic
龍lóng
dragon (phonetic)
The top is the traditional 龍 ('dragon', simplified 龙), here purely the phonetic, giving the exact sound lóng.
No stroke data for 蠪; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
