Japanese word senses marked with topical category "Chinese mythology"

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Total 47 word senses

• 一角獣 (Noun) Synonym of 麒麟 (kirin, “qilin”)
• 三皇五帝 (Proper name) the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
• 伏羲 (Proper name) Fuxi
• 千里眼 (Noun) clairvoyance
• 天地開闢 (Noun) the beginning of the world; when the world began; when the world was created
• 天皇 (Proper name) the first of the Three Sovereigns, possibly 伏羲 (Fukki, “Fu Xi”)
• 女媧 (Proper name) Nüwa
• 姮娥 (Proper name) Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon
• 嫦娥 (Proper name) Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon
• 封神演義 (Proper name) Investiture of the Gods
• 射干 (Noun) a legendary evil beast similar to a fox
• 尾閭 (Noun) a hole that is said to be located at the bottom of the ocean where all water is endlessly leaking away without ever being exhausted.
• 山海経 (Proper name) the Classic of Mountains and Seas
• 扶桑 (Proper name) a sacred tree said to exist in Japan
• 扶桑 (Proper name) a land to the east, often identified with Japan
• 月桂 (Noun) the laurel tree that grows on the moon
• 桂 (Noun) a tree on the moon, from a Chinese legend that the phases of the moon were caused by Lauraceae trees budding, blossoming, then dropping their flowers and leaves again as if in accelerated seasons
• 楓 (Noun) 桂: (Chinese mythology) the kind of tree that grows on the moon
• 河伯 (Proper name) Hebo
• 炎帝 (Proper name) the Yan Emperor, also known as 神農 (Shinnō, “Shennong”), a legendary Chinese ruler in pre-dynastic times
• 牛頭 (Proper name) Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of hell
• 牛頭馬頭 (Proper name) Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the two guardians of hell
• 狻猊 (Noun) a suanni, a cross between a dragon and a lion
• 狻猊 (Proper name) the suanni that was one of the nine sons of the dragon
• 猩々 (Noun) a alcohol loving ape with long red hair and a human face
• 瑶池 (Proper name) Jade Pond; Gem Pond (a mythical location in the Kunlun Mountains associated with the Queen Mother of the West)
• 甘露 (Noun) a heaven-bestowed elixir of immortality
• 盤古 (Proper name) Pangu
• 祝融 (Proper name) Zhurong (a Chinese god of fire and of the south)
• 神仙 (Noun) the 11th note in the Japanese chromatic scale, close to Western C
• 神農 (Proper name) Shennong
• 蚩尤 (Proper name) Chiyou (tribal leader of the ancient Nine Li tribe)
• 蟠桃 (Noun) peach of immortality
• 西王母 (Proper name) Queen Mother of the West (goddess)
• 貔貅 (Noun) pixiu, a mythical horned animal that is believed to bring luck
• 贔屓 (Noun) bixi
• 金烏 (Noun) a golden crow, one of the embodiments of the ten suns, nine of whom were shot down by the hero Hou Yi
• 饕餮 (Noun) a taotie
• 馬頭 (Proper name) Horse-Head, one of the two guardians of hell
• 鯤 (Noun) a mythological giant fish that is several thousand 里 (ri, “leagues”) long and that lives in the northern seas
• 鳳 (Noun) feng: a fabled male fire-bird, thought to be a manifestation of a saint
• 鳳凰 (Noun) fenghuang: a fabled Chinese fire-bird
• 鵬 (Noun) peng: a fabled large bird thought to have wings measuring 3,000 li and can soar up to 90,000 li
• 鸞鳳 (Noun) luanniao and fenghuang
• 麒麟 (Noun) 麒麟, 騏驎: (mythology, Chinese mythology) a qilin
• 麻姑 (Proper name) Magu (nymph in Chinese mythology)
• 黄帝 (Proper name) the Yellow Emperor

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