Chinese word senses marked with topical category "Mythological creatures"

Parent categories: Fantasy, Mythology, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Culture, Artistic works, Genres, Society, Art, Entertainment
Subcategories: Dragons, Merpeople

Total 75 word senses

䴑 (Character) a legendary weird bird, resembling the magpie, with a dark red color, two heads and four feet
三足烏 (Noun) three-legged crow
九尾狐 (Noun) nine-tailed fox
人狼 (Noun) werewolf
人魚 (Noun) giant salamander
凶神 (Noun) demon; fiend; devil
吸血鬼 (Noun) vampire
哥布林 (Noun) goblin
嗍血鬼 (Noun) vampire
報喪女妖 (Noun) banshee
塞壬 (Noun) siren
夔 (Character) the Kui, a one-legged creature
天狗 (Noun) tengu
妖 (Character) demon; goblin
妖怪 (Noun) supernatural being; monster; devil; goblin
妖鬼 (Noun) ghast; ghost; monster; demon
妖魔 (Noun) ghost; monster; demon
山魈 (Noun) mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
巨怪 (Noun) troll
巴蛇 (Noun) ba snake, a mythical python that eats elephants
怪哉 (Noun) a kind of mythological animal
惡煞 (Noun) demon; fiend
朱雀 (Proper name) Vermilion Bird (one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations)
植物羊 (Noun) vegetable lamb
檮杌 (Noun) taowu (a mythical creature)
殭屍 (Noun) jiangshi (Chinese “hopping” vampire, ghost, or zombie)
海豹人 (Noun) selkie
牛頭人 (Noun) minotaur
犼 (Character) a Denglong beast
狒狒 (Noun) name of a monster mentioned in the Erya (爾雅)
狼人 (Noun) werewolf
狼狽 (Verb) to strive; to do one's best
猦𤝕 (Noun) an ape-like creature that is resurrected by the wind after death
獍 (Character) a mythical tiger-like animal that eats its own mother shortly after birth
獨角獸 (Noun) Short for 獨角獸企業／独角兽企业 (dújiǎoshòu qǐyè, “unicorn enterprise”).
白吳魚 (Noun) mermaid; merperson; merfolk (with a white body and a horse-like head)
矮精靈 (Noun) leprechaun
窮奇 (Noun) qiongqi (a legendary creature)
美人魚 (Noun) mermaid; merperson; merfolk
翼龍 (Noun) winged dragon
蒲牢 (Noun) pulao (a kind of shore-dwelling dragon, often depicted on top of bells)
虺 (Character) a kind of venomous snake
蜃 (Character) the shen, a shapeshifting aquatic monster originally imagined as a clam and later as a type of dragon
螣蛇 (Noun) teng snake, a kind of flying serpent or dragon
蟈 (Character) Alternative form of 蜮 (yù, “legendary creature that has three legs and harms humans”)
貓妖 (Noun) cat demon or goblin
賽蓮 (Noun) siren
贔屭 (Noun) bixi (a mythological turtlelike animal)
迦樓羅 (Noun) garuda (mythological winged being)
靈獸 (Noun) auspicious beast
青蚨 (Noun) a kind of insect
飛龍 (Proper name) Feilongus
饕餮 (Noun) taotie (legendary gluttonous animal)
馬面 (Proper name) Horse-Face, one of the two guardians of hell
驨 (Character) a mythical beast like a horse with a deer's antler
鬼 (Character) goblin
魍魎 (Noun) demons and monsters
魑魅 (Noun) evil spirit; demon
鯤 (Character) kun, a large fish that transforms into a roc (鵬／鹏 (péng))
鯤鵬 (Noun) kunpeng (a kind of sea monster that transforms into a roc)
鯪 (Character) legendary fish with human-like face and hands
鳳凰 (Noun) phoenix
鴆鳥 (Noun) the zhenniao bird
鴸 (Character) a mythical bird resembling an owl with human hands, said to bring bad luck
鵬 (Character) peng (enormous bird)
鵷鶵 (Noun) name of a legendary bird traditionally interpreted as a kind of Chinese phoenix
鶝鶔 (Noun) a bird resembling a magpie, but with a shorter tail. It was very agile, as it could dodge arrows, catch them in its mouth, and launch them back at the archer.
鶬 (Character) a kind of mythological bird
鷫鷞 (Noun) a kind of legendary bird from the west
鸑鷟 (Noun) name of a legendary auspicious bird traditionally interpreted as a kind of fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)
鸓 (Character) a bird with two heads and four legs that resembles the magpie
鸛鷒 (Noun) a kind of bird that could launch arrows back at archers
鸞 (Character) luan (mythical bird related to the fenghuang; sometimes translated as simurgh)
麒麟 (Noun) qilin (propitious mythological beast) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn)
龍馬 (Noun) longma (mythological creature with a dragon's head and a horse's body)

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