りゅうおう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of りゅうおう – see the following entry.

【竜王】 [noun] (mythology) a dragon king, especially in esoteric Buddhist contexts [noun] (shogi) a promoted 飛車 (hisha, “flying chariot”), having a move corresponding to both rook and king in Western chess [noun] (shogi) one of the eight major titles of professional shogi, conferred to the winner of a 竜王戦 (ryūō-sen, “dragon king match”) [proper noun] a placename, especially of a town in the district of either Nakakoma in central Yamanashi prefecture or Gamō in south Shiga prefecture

(This term, りゅうおう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)