Korean/Words/우룡

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우룡

RR: uryong (雨龍)

literally "rain dragon" or rainworm, as 지룡 (地龍, jiryong, literally "earth dragon") is actually earthworm, which corrupted to Korean 지렁이 (jireong-i).

Synonyms

Korean/Words/지룡 (地龍, jiryong, "earthworm, literally, earth dragon")
지렁이 (jireong-i, "earthworm") corrupted from Korean/Words/지룡이

Hypernyms

Korean/Words/룡 (龍, ryong, "dragon")

Associatives

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/地龍 ^[1]

Native

Promoted

		○
	○	○	○
		地龍
	／	○	＼
／				＼


	○	○	○
―	―	雨龍	―	―
	／	｜	＼
／		｜		＼

Legend
○ : one- or two-square move
― : even more than two-square move

References

↑ The chiryu (地龍, "earth dragon or earthworm") is a Japanese chess piece, which is often promoted to the uryu (雨龍, "rain dragon or rainworm") marked by free backward and sideward moves. Note that Old English wyrum for worm also meant "dragon, snake".