翼竜

Japanese

翼 (yoku, “wing”) +‎ 竜 (ryū, “dragon”)

On’yomi
- (Tokyo) よくりゅう [yòkúryúú] (Heiban – [0])
- (Tokyo) よくりゅう [yòkúꜜryùù] (Nakadaka – [2])
- IPA^(key): [jo̞kɯ̟ᵝɾʲɨᵝː]
- Homophone: 抑留

翼竜 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 翼龍, hiragana よくりゅう, rōmaji yokuryū)

(literally) a winged dragon
- 1999 March 24 [Nov 9 1997], Takahashi, Kazuki, “遊闘バトル37　死し闘とう‼死し闘とう‼ [Battle 37: Mortal Combat‼ Mortal Combat‼]”, in 遊ゆう☆戯ぎ☆王おう [King of Games], volume 5 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
  「砦 (とりで)を守 (まも)る翼 (よく)竜 (りゅう)」カードの「火 (か)球 (きゅう)の飛礫 (つぶて)」の攻 (こう)撃 (げき)で海 (かい)馬 (ば)の「サイクロプス」を撃 (げき)破 (は)‼
  “Toride o Mamoru Yokuryū” kādo no “Kakyū no Tsubute” no kōgeki de Kaiba no “Saikuropusu” o gekiha‼
  The “Fireball Attack” of the “Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress” has annihilated Kaiba’s “Cyclops”‼
a pterosaur
- 2007 March 22, “サイバティック・ワイバーン [Cybertic Wyvern]”, in STARTER DECK (in Japanese), Konami:
  メカで強 (きょう)化 (か)された翼 (よく)竜 (りゅう)。ドラゴンにやられ死 (し)にかけた所 (ところ)を、飼 (か)い主 (ぬし)にサイボーグ化 (か)された。
  Meka de kyōkasareta yokuryū. Doragon ni yarare shinikaketa tokoro o, kainushi ni saibōgu-kasareta.
  A mechanically enhanced pterosaur. After being mortally wounded by a dragon, he was turned into a cyborg by his owner.