龙种

龍種
lóngzhǒng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 emperor's offspring
  2. 2 descendant of the dragon
  3. 3 (figurative) outstanding person

Examples

Gǔrén rènwéi huángdì de háizi shì lóngzhǒng.
The ancients believed that an emperor's children were of the dragon's lineage.
Tā zìchēng lóngzhǒng, qíshí zhǐ shì pǔtōng rén.
He claims to be of royal stock, but he's actually just an ordinary person.

Tips

culture
Chinese emperors styled themselves 天子 (zhēnlóng tiānzǐ, true dragon, son of heaven), so their children were 龙种 — literally dragon-seed. Today the word is mostly literary or sarcastic.

Stroke Order

lóng
zhǒng