Dragon boat in Chinese (Mandarin): 龙舟 (lóngzhōu)
龙舟
lóngzhōu
dragon boat
- Simplified
- 龙舟
- Traditional
- 龍舟
- Pinyin
- lóngzhōu
- Typed as
- longzhou
Use it in a sentence
在端午节，我们赛龙舟。
在端午節，我們賽龍舟。
At the Dragon Boat Festival we race dragon boats.
The characters in 龙舟
龙 / 龍
Dragon.
5 strokes
舟
Boat. It began as a drawing of a boat.
6 strokes
龙舟 are long boats with dragon heads, raced at the Dragon Boat Festival, 端午节 (Duānwǔjié).
More examples with 龙舟
龙舟很长。
龍舟很長。
Lóngzhōu hěn cháng.
Dragon boats are long.
大家一起划龙舟。
大家一起划龍舟。
Dàjiā yìqǐ huá lóngzhōu.
Everyone paddles the dragon boat together.
How to write 龙舟 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
龙 5 strokes
舟 6 strokes
In Traditional characters:
龍 16 strokes
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