1. Japanese in origin, it simply means "Dragon."
2. An emotionally detached, wandering closet neurotic who also happens to be the focal point of
Capcom's immensely popular "Street Fighter" series. Since the mid-1980s, this enigmatic drifter has searched the globe far-and-wide looking for the true meaning of "the fight."
His one and only friend is the arrogant and haughty bi-ethnic rich boy
Ken Masters, who somehow, with all of the monetarial wealth he posesses, cannot purchase a pair of tweezers and
tweeze his overtly bushy eyebrows.
Did I mention that he (Ryu) may also be psychologically disturbed?