精衛

See also: 精衞 and 精卫

Chinese

 
energy; perfect; excellent; refined; very; proficient
 
to guard; to protect; to defend; surname
trad. (精衛/精衞) /
simp. (精卫)

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Proper noun

精衛

  1. (Chinese mythology) Jingwei, the daughter of the emperor Yandi who drowned at a young age in the East Sea and assumed the shape of a bird in order to exact revenge upon the sea by filling it up with pebbles

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