English word senses marked with topical category "Chinese mythology"

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Parent categories: China, Mythology, Countries, Countries in Asia, Culture, Polities, Places, Asia, Society, Names, Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Subcategories: Chinese zodiac signs

Total 60 word senses

• Black Turtle (Proper name) a symbol of the element of water and direction north, typically depicted as a turtle entwined with a snake
• Chang'e (Proper name) The Chinese goddess of the moon.
• Chinese astrology (Noun) The astrology system which was developed in China and is based on yin and yang, twelve signs represented by animals, the lunisolar calendar and five planets.
• Chinese dragon (Noun) A legendary creature, usually depicted as long and snake-like, with many claws, common in several East Asian cultures.
• Dog (Proper name) The language supposedly spoken by dogs
• Dog (Proper name) The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Dog (Proper name) The Dog Star; Sirius.
• Dragon (Proper name) The fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Fusang (Proper name) a legendary tree
• Fuxi (Proper name) A legendary ancient Chinese ruler and culture hero, typically the brother of Nüwa.
• Goat (Proper name) The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Gonggong (Proper name) A water god or monster who terrorized prehistoric China
• Heaven (Proper name) The supreme God or Nature which controls the universe.
• Horse (Proper name) The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Jade Emperor (Proper name) The lord of the Celestial Hierarchy, ruling over Heaven, Earth, and Hell.
• Kanghui (Proper name) Personal name of Gonggong, a monster.
• Kunlun (Proper name) A mountain or mountain range somewhere west of the North China Plain believed to be the home of Xiwangmu and the Peaches of Immortality, as well as other gods and Taoist immortals, and previously believed to help support the dome of the sky.
• Laozi (Proper name) An honorific title for the legendary Taoist philosopher Li Er, who supposedly lived in the 6th and 5th centuries BC and (Chinese mythology) has subsequently been worshipped as a Taoist god.
• Monkey (Proper name) The ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Nüwa (Proper name) a goddess who repaired heaven and created the Earth
• Ox (Proper name) A Chinese constellation located near Capricorn, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
• Ox (Proper name) The second of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Ox (Proper name) Clipping of Oxford.
• Pangu (Proper name) The first living being and creator of all in Chinese mythology.
• Pig (Proper name) The twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Rabbit (Proper name) The fourth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Rat (Proper name) The first of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Rooster (Proper name) The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Snake (Proper name) The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• Snake (Proper name) An early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.
• Snake (Proper name) A placename:; A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia.
• Snake (Proper name) A placename:; Ellipsis of Snake Island.
• Sun Wukong (Proper name) A fictional anthropomorphic monkey with various abilities and magical powers best known for being one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese epic Journey to the West, and is revered as a deity by some Buddhists and most Taoists.
• T'ien (Proper name) Alternative form of Tian (“Heaven, God”)
• Temple of Heaven (Proper name) A religious complex in southeastern Beijing, formerly important to Chinese imperial rituals; the present-day park surrounding and preserving the site.
• Temple of Heaven (Proper name) The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the largest building in the complex, commonly confused as its focus.
• Tian (Proper name) Synonym of Heaven: simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.
• Tien (Proper name) Alternative form of Tian: Heaven, simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.
• Tiger (Noun) Someone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
• Xiangliu (Proper name) A hydra-like monster which terrorized the world in prehistory.
• Xiangyao (Proper name) Synonym of Xiangliu, a monster.
• Yushan (Proper name) Jade Mountain, a mythological mountain and residence of The Queen Mother of the West
• euhemerism (Noun) The belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and events.
• euhemerization (Noun) The fanciful invention of plausible historical figures and events as an attempt to rationalize mythology and legends
• euhemerization (Noun) The fanciful invention of plausible historical figures and events as an attempt to rationalize mythology and legends; an instance of this
• euhemerization (Noun) Synonym of deification: the actual creation of mythology and legends from historical figures and events; (countable) an instance of this.
• euhemerize (Verb) To invent a plausible but fanciful historical origin for something in order to rationalize mythology and legends.
• euhemerize (Verb) Synonym of deify: to actually create mythology and legends from ancient historical figures and events.
• feng shui (Noun) A system of spiritual energies, both good and evil, present in the natural features of landscapes.
• fenghuang (Noun) A phoenix found in Asian mythologies, which reigns over all other birds, often of female sex and frequently found paired with the Chinese dragon.
• hulijing (Noun) nine-tailed fox in Chinese mythology
• mogwai (Noun) A kind of demon held to be harmful to humans.
• money tree (Noun) A kind of holy tree believed to bring money and good fortune.
• muke (Noun) A kind of tree spirit.
• peach of immortality (Noun) A kind of peach believed to grant longevity to those who consume it.
• peng (Noun) A legendary enormous bird.
• phoenix (Noun) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
• pixiu (Noun) A mythical Chinese creature resembling a winged lion, supposed to bring wealth.
• qilin (Noun) A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.
• yinglong (Noun) a winged dragon and rain deity in Chinese mythology

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