竜神

Japanese

Kanji in this term
竜	神
りゅう Grade: S	じん Grade: 3
goon

Alternative spelling
龍神 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) りゅうじん [ryùújíń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [ɾʲɨᵝːʑĩɴ]

Proper noun

竜(りゅう)神(じん) • (Ryūjin)

(Shinto) a dragon god also known as 海神(わたつみ) (Watatsumi), the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology

See also

ワタツミ (Watatsumi) on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
Ryūjin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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