Question About A Symbol

[calliopes_pen]

I just thought I would ask my friends list this--I'm wearing a shirt with a Chinese symbol on it (my aunt bought it for me last year), and want to know if it means anything.

For all I know, that symbol could say Serenity. *laughs* Just curious.

Here is what it looks like. I think the thing on the right is probably a dragon.

Comments

[damos.livejournal.com]

The first character is 龍 which does mean dragon. The second one I don't know/can't make out. The dragon might be bent in the shape of 竜 which also means dragon. They both pronounced "ryuu" in Japanese, but I don't know how they would be pronounced in Chinese.

[damos.livejournal.com]

Got it! It would be 龍隊 "ryuutai" (dragon group). If it were 舞龍隊 (mairyuutai) it would be the group that does the Chinese Dragon on Chinese New Years. Again, these pronunciations are in Japanese.

(Really embarrassed that I didn't get "group" since it is not a hard or uncommon word, but in my defense, my "cursive" reading skills are almost 0).

[calliopes_pen]

Thank you--great to know that it actually meant something!