Chinese word senses marked with topical category "Mythological creatures"

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

Total 82 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)
• 睚眥 (Noun) mythological creature who is said to be bloodthirsty, often found decorating sword handles, one of the "nine sons of the dragon"
• 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
• 螭虎 (Noun) a mythical creature whose statue is seen decorating the sides of steles
• 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); creature that is said to like carrying heavy weights, whose statue is seen under steles
• 贔屭 (Noun) bixi (a mythological turtlelike animal); creature that is said to like literature, whose statue is seen on the sides of the steles
• 贔屭 (Adjective) strenuous; with a lot of strength
• 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) ghost; apparition; spirit (Classifier: 隻／只)
• 鬼 (Character) goblin
• 鬼 (Character) imp; urchin
• 鬼王 (Noun) king of ghosts or yaoguai
• 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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