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Blue Dragon / Azure Dragon
青龍 is a scholarly title for “Blue Dragon” or “Azure Dragon.”
You'll find this title used in ancient Chinese literature and astronomy. This dragon has dominion over the eastern sky or eastern heavens. The Azure Dragon is also noted for representing the spring season. Also seen as an auspicious omen.
Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty canonized the five colored dragons as “kings.” The Azure Dragon represents the most compassionate of kings.
In Japanese, this title is known with the same meaning but can also be a given name, Seiryuu or Seiryu.
Note, the first character can be written as 
OR 
. Same character, just two ways to write it.
Green Dragon / Blue Dragon
靑龍 is a title that can mean blue or green dragon.
The first character can mean blue, green, azure, or celadon.
The second character means dragon.
This is mostly a Chinese title (especially in Buddhism). It will be understood but less commonly used in Japanese and Korean.
Blue Dragon
蒼龍 is one of a couple of possible titles for “blue dragon” (occasionally also translated as “green dragon”).
The first character means “deep blue” or “azure.”
The last character is dragon.
Shen Long
神龍 or Shen Long literally means “god dragon” or “divine dragon.”
神龍 is a spiritual dragon from Chinese mythology that controls wind, storms, clouds, and rain. Historically, farmers in China avoid offending this dragon, as it could result in a drought or flooding of their fields.
Shen Long has blue/azure scales and appears on the beautiful robes of some Chinese emperors.
Sometimes romanized as Shen Lung and sometimes written as 神竜 in Japan with the pronunciation of Shinryū or Shenron. It can also be a given name in Japan.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
蒼龍 苍龙 see styles |
cāng lóng cang1 long2 ts`ang lung tsang lung souryuu / soryu そうりゅう |
More info & calligraphy: Blue Dragon(1) blue dragon; (2) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens); (3) (astron) seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens; (4) large horse with a bluish-leaden coat; (5) shape of an old pine tree; (given name) Souryū |
蒼竜 see styles |
souryuu / soryu そうりゅう |
(1) blue dragon; (2) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens); (3) (astron) seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens; (4) large horse with a bluish-leaden coat; (5) shape of an old pine tree; (given name) Souryū |
青竜 see styles |
seiryuu / seryu せいりゅう |
(1) blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); (2) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens); (surname, given name) Seiryū |
青龍 青龙 see styles |
qīng lóng qing1 long2 ch`ing lung ching lung seiryuu / seryu せいりゅう |
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙[Dong1 fang1 Qing1 long2] or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙[Dong1 fang1 Cang1 long2]; (slang) man without pubic hair (1) blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); (2) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens); (surname, given name) Seiryū |
Variations: |
souryou; souryuu / soryo; soryu そうりょう; そうりゅう |
(1) (See 青竜・1) blue dragon; (2) (See 青竜・2) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens); (3) {astron} (See 二十八宿) seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens; (4) large horse with a bluish-leaden coat; (5) shape of an old pine tree |
Variations: |
seiryou; shouryou; seiryuu / seryo; shoryo; seryu せいりょう; しょうりょう; せいりゅう |
(1) blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); (2) (See 四神) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Blue Dragon Azure Dragon | 青龍 / 靑龍 青龙 | sei ryuu / seiryuu / sei ryu | qīng lóng qing1 long2 qing long qinglong | ch`ing lung chinglung ching lung |
| Green Dragon Blue Dragon | 靑龍 靑龙 | sei ryū / seiryū | qīng lóng qing1 long2 qing long qinglong | ch`ing lung chinglung ching lung |
| Blue Dragon | 蒼龍 苍龙 | cāng lóng cang1 long2 cang long canglong | ts`ang lung tsanglung tsang lung |
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| Shen Long | 神龍 | shenron / shinryuu shenron / shinryu | shén lóng shen2 long2 shen long shenlong | shen lung shenlung |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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