"feng-huang" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: feng-huangs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} feng-huang (plural feng-huangs)
  1. Alternative form of fenghuang Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: fenghuang
    Sense id: en-feng-huang-en-noun-sByaa9Oi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2008, “Phoenix (Egyptian and Greek)”, in Josepha Sherman, editor, Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore, volume 2, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 364, column 2:",
          "text": "The phoenix has been associated by some scholars with two other sacred birds, or bird-being, the Hindu Garuda and the Chinese feng-huang.",
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          "ref": "2009, “Fabled Flyers”, in Linda S. Godfrey, editor, Mythical Creatures (Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena), Chelsea House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:",
          "text": "Greek writers adopted the fabulous bird enthusiastically as early as 800 BCE, and similar birds appear in other cultures, often connected with the sun. The Chinese believed a fiery-hued creature called the feng-huang came to them from the sun.",
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          "ref": "2012 May, Hui-Chih Yu [于惠之], “The Cross-cultural Symbolism of Birds - An Approach to Arousing Students' Interest in Learning English [論不同文化中鳥的象徵意義 — 激發學生學習英語興趣之途徑]”, in STUST Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences [南台人文社會學報], number 7, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-27, page 157:",
          "text": "In China, the phoenix is known as the Feng-huang; in its \"feng\" aspect it is a male, solar sybol, while as \"huang\", it is a female and lunar, making it an embodiment of the union of yin and yang.",
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          "ref": "2013, Traci Harding, “The Rite of Gao Mei”, in Dreaming of Zhou Gong, HarperVoyager, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 363:",
          "text": "One of them would be chosen by the ancient chimera bird, Feng-Huang, which resided atop of the mighty Kunlun mountain range of which Bayan Har Shan formed part. These mountains, which Ji Shi had reportedly sprung from, seemed to be a hotbed of supernatural activity. The legendary bird had a male aspect, Feng, and a female aspect, Huang, and presided over every other bird in the land ... it was known to have the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish. Feng-Huang would only appear in the most harmonious and joyous of situations. Its coming always heralded the beginning of a new era of imperial rule, and bestowed the perfect balance of yin and yang upon heaven’s mandate.",
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          "ref": "2016, Pamela Ball, “The Physical Practice of Tao”, in The Essence of Tao, London: Arcturus Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:",
          "text": "She is portrayed as a young beautiful woman wearing a royal gown, sometimes riding a peacock. Her favourite animal is Feng-huang, the Chinese phoenix which is the personification of the primordial force of the heavens and the symbol of immortality. Feng-huang has the head and the comb of a pheasant and the tail of a peacock.",
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          "text": "Greek writers adopted the fabulous bird enthusiastically as early as 800 BCE, and similar birds appear in other cultures, often connected with the sun. The Chinese believed a fiery-hued creature called the feng-huang came to them from the sun.",
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