精衛
Chinese
energy; perfect; excellent; refined; very; proficient |
to guard; to protect; to defend; surname | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (精衛/精衞) | 精 | 衛/衞 | |
| simp. (精卫) | 精 | 卫 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zing1 wai6
- Yale: jīng waih
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzing1 wai6
- Guangdong Romanization: jing1 wei6
- IPA (key): /t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵ wɐi̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Proper noun
精衛
- (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
Derived terms
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