A few centuries later, Wang Fu described their appearance with the "nine similitudes" --having a body like an ox, a mouth like a donkey, eyes like a prawn, ears like an elephant, scales like a fish, whiskers like a man, belly like a snake and claws like a phoenix.
再比較今日所見到的龍，正如東漢王符提到龍「三停九似」中的九似﹘﹘頭似牛、嘴似驢、眼似蝦、角似鹿、耳似象、鱗似魚、鬍似人、腹似蛇、足似鳳。