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94 relations: Alishan National Scenic Area, Baopuzi, Basilisk, Bernhard Karlgren, Book of Han, Book of Rites, Burmese language, Byssus, Ceratops, Chengyu, Chinese alligator, Chinese character classification, Chinese dragon, Chinese herbology, Chinese mythology, Chu (state), Chu Ci, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Cockatrice, Compendium of Materia Medica, Compound (linguistics), Dan Snaith, Disc jockey, Dragon boat, Dragon Boat Festival, Edward H. Schafer, Elasmobranchii, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Zhao of Han, Etymology, Fenghuang, Fuxi, Ge Hong, Guangya, Guanzi (text), Guo Pu, Han shi waizhuan, Hong (rainbow-dragon), Huainanzi, Japanese dragon, Japanese writing system, Jiaolong (album), Jiaolong (submersible), Kangxi Dictionary, Kanji, Kraken, Lüshi Chunqiu, Makara (Hindu mythology), Mermaid, Merman, ..., Middle Chinese, Mizuchi, Nüwa, Nāga, Old Chinese, Phonetics, Pictogram, Pinna (bivalve), Piya, Polysemy, Qiulong, Qu Yuan, Radical (Chinese characters), Realgar, Realgar wine, Records of the Grand Historian, Saltwater crocodile, Samebito, Sea silk, Shark, Shen (clam-monster), Shi Yi Ji, Shuowen Jiezi, Song dynasty, Standard Tibetan, Stingray, Submersible, Taiwan, The Book of Lord Shang, Tibeto-Burman languages, Toponymy, Traditional Chinese medicine, University of California Press, Variant Chinese character, Wang Yi (librarian), Wei River, Wen Yiduo, William Broad, Wolfram Eberhard, Wu (state), Wyvern, Xunzi (book), Yiqiejing Yinyi (Huilin), Zhuangzi (book). Expand index (44 more) »
Alishan National Scenic Area
The Alishan National Scenic Area is a mountain resort and natural preserve located in Alishan Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan.
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Baopuzi
The Baopuzi, written by the Jin dynasty scholar Ge Hong 葛洪 (283-343), is divided into esoteric Neipian 內篇 "Inner Chapters" and exoteric Waipian 外篇 "Outer Chapters".
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Basilisk
In European bestiaries and legends, a basilisk (or, from the Greek βασιλίσκος basilískos, "little king"; Latin regulus) is a legendary reptile reputed to be a serpent king who can cause death with a single glance.
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Bernhard Karlgren
Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren (15 October 1889 – 20 October 1978) was a Swedish Sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods.
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Book of Han
The Book of Han or History of the Former Han is a history of China finished in 111, covering the Western, or Former Han dynasty from the first emperor in 206 BCE to the fall of Wang Mang in 23 CE.
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Book of Rites
The Book of Rites or Liji is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods.
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Burmese language
The Burmese language (မြန်မာဘာသာ, MLCTS: mranmabhasa, IPA) is the official language of Myanmar.
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Byssus
A byssus is a bundle of filaments secreted by many species of bivalve mollusk that function to attach the mollusk to a solid surface.
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Ceratops
Ceratops (meaning "horn face") is a dubious genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous.
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Chengyu
Chengyu are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expression, most of which consist of four characters.
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Chinese alligator
The Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) (yáng zǐ è), also known as the Yangtze alligator, is one of two known living species of Alligator and is the smaller of the two, a genus in the family Alligatoridae.
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Chinese character classification
All Chinese characters are logograms, but several different types can be identified, based on the manner in which they are formed or derived.
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Chinese dragon
Chinese dragons or East Asian dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and East Asian culture at large.
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Chinese herbology
Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
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Chinese mythology
Chinese mythology refers to myths found in the historical geographic area of China: these include myths in Chinese and other languages, as transmitted by Han Chinese and other ethnic groups, which have their own languages and myths.
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Chu (state)
Chu (Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was a hegemonic, Zhou dynasty era state.
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Chu Ci
The Chu Ci, variously translated as Verses of Chu or Songs of Chu, is an anthology of Chinese poetry traditionally attributed mainly to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the Warring States period (ended 221 BC), though about half of the poems seem to have been composed several centuries later, during the Han dynasty.
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Classic of Mountains and Seas
The Classic of Mountains and Seas or Shan Hai Jing, formerly romanized as the Shan-hai Ching, is a Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and myth.
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Cockatrice
A cockatrice is a mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon or serpent-like creature with a rooster's head.
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Compendium of Materia Medica
The Compendium of Materia Medica (also known by the romanizations Bencao Gangmu or Pen-tsao Kang-mu) is a Chinese herbology volume written by Li Shizhen during the Ming dynasty; its first draft was completed in 1578.
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Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem.
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Dan Snaith
Daniel Victor "Dan" Snaith (born 1978) is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist who has performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba and Daphni.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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Dragon boat
A dragon boat is a human-powered watercraft.
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Dragon Boat Festival
The Duanwu Festival, also often known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional holiday originating in China, occurring near the summer solstice.
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Edward H. Schafer
Edward Hetsel Schafer (23 August 1913 – 9 February 1991) was an American Sinologist, historian, and writer noted for his expertise on the Tang Dynasty, and was a professor of Chinese at University of California, Berkeley for 35 years.
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Elasmobranchii
Elasmobranchii is a subclass of Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fish, including the sharks (superorder Selachii) and the rays, skates, and sawfish (superorder Batoidea).
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Emperor Gaozu of Han
Emperor Gaozu of Han (256 BC – 1 June 195 BC), born Liu Bang (刘邦), was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigning from 202 – 195 BC.
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Emperor Zhao of Han
Emperor Zhao of Han (94 BC – 5 June 74 BC), born Liu Fuling, was the emperor of the Western Han dynasty from 87 to 74 BC.
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Etymology
EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".
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Fenghuang
Fenghuang are mythological birds of East Asia that reign over all other birds.
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Fuxi
Fuxi (Chinese: 伏羲), also romanized as Fu-hsi, is a culture hero in Chinese legend and mythology, credited (along with his sister Nüwa 女娲) with creating humanity and the invention of hunting, fishing and cooking as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters c. 2,000 BCE.
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Ge Hong
Ge Hong (葛洪; b. 283 - d. 343 or 363) was an Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar, and the author of Essays on Chinese Characters.
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Guangya
The (c. 230) Guangya ("Expanded ya") was an early 3rd-century CE Chinese dictionary, edited by Zhang Yi during the Three Kingdoms period.
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Guanzi (text)
The Guanzi is an ancient Chinese political and philosophical text that is named for and traditionally attributed to the 7th century BCE statesman Guan Zhong, who served as Prime Minister to Duke Huan of Qi.
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Guo Pu
Guo Pu (AD 276324), courtesy name Jingchun (景純), was a Chinese writer and scholar during the Eastern Jin period, and is best known as one of China's foremost commentators on ancient texts.
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Han shi waizhuan
Han shi waizhuan, translated as Exoteric traditions of the Han version of the Songs, Illustrations of the Didactic Application of the Classic of Songs, or " The Outer Commentary to the Book of Songs by Master Han, is a book written in the Eastern Han dynasty, attributed to Han Ying (fl. 150 BCE).
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Hong (rainbow-dragon)
Hong or jiang is a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology, comparable with rainbow serpent legends in diverse cultures and mythologies.
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Huainanzi
The Huainanzi is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of essays that resulted from a series of scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, King of Huainan, sometime before 139.
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Japanese dragon
Japanese dragons (日本の竜 Nihon no ryū) are diverse legendary creatures in Japanese mythology and folklore.
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Japanese writing system
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.
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Jiaolong (album)
Jiaolong is the sixth studio album by Canadian musician Daniel Snaith, released on October 16, 2012 by Merge.
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Jiaolong (submersible)
Jiaolong (flood dragon) is a Chinese manned deep-sea research submersible that can dive to a depth of over 7,000 m. It has the greatest depth range of any manned research vehicle in the world, the only manned expeditions to have gone deeper were the dives of the Trieste bathyscaphe (10,916m) in 1960, Archimède (9,560 m) in 1962, and the dive of the Deepsea Challenger (10,898m) in 2012, all three diving to Challenger Deep.
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Kangxi Dictionary
The Kangxi Dictionary was the standard Chinese dictionary during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Kanji
Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.
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Kraken
The kraken is a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of giant size that is said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland.
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Lüshi Chunqiu
The Lüshi Chunqiu, also known in English as Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei.
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Makara (Hindu mythology)
Makara (मकर) is a sea-creature in Hindu culture.
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Mermaid
In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.
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Merman
Mermen are mythical male equivalents and counterparts of mermaids – legendary creatures who have the form of a male human from the waist up and are fish-like from the waist down, having scaly fish tails in place of legs.
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Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.
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Mizuchi
The Mizuchi 蛟 is a type of Japanese dragon or legendary serpent-like creature, either found in aquatic habitat or otherwise connected to water.
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Nüwa
Nüwa or Nügua is the mother goddess of Chinese mythology, the sister and wife of Fuxi, the emperor-god.
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Nāga
Nāga (IAST: nāgá; Devanāgarī: नाग) is the Sanskrit and Pali word for a deity or class of entity or being taking the form of a very great snake, specifically the king cobra, found in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
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Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.
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Phonetics
Phonetics (pronounced) is the branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.
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Pictogram
A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.
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Pinna (bivalve)
Pinna is a genus of bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pinnidae.
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Piya
The Piya ("Increased ya") was a Chinese dictionary compiled by Song Dynasty scholar Lu Dian (陸佃/陆佃, 1042-1102).
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Polysemy
Polysemy (or; from πολυ-, poly-, "many" and σῆμα, sêma, "sign") is the capacity for a sign (such as a word, phrase, or symbol) to have multiple meanings (that is, multiple semes or sememes and thus multiple senses), usually related by contiguity of meaning within a semantic field.
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Qiulong
Qiulong (lit. "curling dragon") or qiu was a Chinese dragon that is contradictorily defined as "horned dragon" and "hornless dragon".
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Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan (–278 BC) was a Chinese poet and minister who lived during the Warring States period of ancient China.
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Radical (Chinese characters)
A Chinese radical is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.
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Realgar
Realgar, α-As4S4, is an arsenic sulfide mineral, also known as "ruby sulphur" or "ruby of arsenic".
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Realgar wine
Realgar wine or xionghuang wine (Chinese: 雄黃酒, xiónghuángjiǔ) is a Chinese alcoholic drink that consists of Chinese cereal wine (huangjiu, "yellow wine") dosed with powdered realgar, a yellow-orange arsenic sulfide mineral (As4S4).
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Records of the Grand Historian
The Records of the Grand Historian, also known by its Chinese name Shiji, is a monumental history of ancient China and the world finished around 94 BC by the Han dynasty official Sima Qian after having been started by his father, Sima Tan, Grand Astrologer to the imperial court.
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Saltwater crocodile
The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), also known as the estuarine crocodile, Indo-Pacific crocodile, marine crocodile, sea crocodile or informally as saltie, is the largest of all living reptiles, as well as the largest riparian predator in the world.
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Samebito
The is a creature that appears in "The Gratitude of the Samebito", a short story by Lafcadio Hearn.
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Sea silk
Sea silk is an extremely fine, rare, and valuable fabric that is made from the long silky filaments or byssus secreted by a gland in the foot of pen shells (in particular Pinna nobilis).
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Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
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Shen (clam-monster)
In Chinese mythology, the shen or chen is a shapeshifting dragon or sea monster believed to create mirages.
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Shi Yi Ji
Shi Yi Ji is a Chinese mythological / historical treatise compiled by the Taoist scholar Wang Jia (died 390).
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Shuowen Jiezi
Shuowen Jiezi, often shortened to Shuowen, was an early 2nd-century Chinese dictionary from the Han Dynasty.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
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Standard Tibetan
Standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages.
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Stingray
Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks.
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Submersible
A submersible is a small vehicle designed to operate underwater.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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The Book of Lord Shang
The Book of Lord Shang is an ancient Chinese text from the 3rd century BC, regarded as a foundational work of "Chinese Legalism".
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Tibeto-Burman languages
The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the highlands of Southeast Asia as well as certain parts of East Asia and South Asia.
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Toponymy
Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.
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Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine.
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University of California Press
University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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Variant Chinese character
Variant Chinese characters (Kanji: 異体字; Hepburn: itaiji; Hanja: 異體字; Hangul: 이체자; Revised Romanization: icheja) are Chinese characters that are homophones and synonyms.
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Wang Yi (librarian)
Wang Yi (c. CE 89–158), courtesy name Shushi, was a Han dynasty Chinese poet, editor, and annotator who was employed in the Imperial Library by the Later Han emperor Shun Di (reigned CE 125 – 144).
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Wei River
The Wei River is a major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces.
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Wen Yiduo
Wen Yiduo (24 November 189915 July 1946) was a prominent Chinese poet and scholar who was assassinated by the Kuomintang.
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William Broad
William J. Broad (born March 7, 1951) is an American science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at The New York Times.
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Wolfram Eberhard
Wolfram Eberhard (March 17, 1909 – August 15, 1989) was a professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central and Eastern Asian societies.
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Wu (state)
Wu (Old Chinese: *) was one of the states during the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period.
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Wyvern
A wyvern (sometimes spelled wivern) is a legendary creature with a dragon's head and wings, a reptilian body, two legs, and a tail often ending in a diamond- or arrow-shaped tip.
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Xunzi (book)
The Xunzi is an ancient Chinese collection of philosophical writings attributed to Xun Kuang, a 3rd century BC philosopher usually associated with the Confucian tradition.
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Yiqiejing Yinyi (Huilin)
The (c. 807) Yiqiejing yinyi 一切經音義 "Pronunciation and Meaning in the Complete Buddhist Canon" was compiled by the Tang dynasty lexicographer monk Huilin 慧琳 as an expanded revision of the original (c. 649) Yiqiejing yinyi compiled by Xuanying 玄應.
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Zhuangzi (book)
The Zhuangzi (Mandarin:; historically romanized Chuang-tzu) is an ancient Chinese text from the late Warring States period (476221) which contains stories and anecdotes that exemplify the carefree nature of the ideal Daoist sage.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaolong
