玄武
玄武
Xuán wǔ
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky); (in Daoism) God of the north sky
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- Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky)
- (in Daoism) God of the north sky
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Related Words
四象(sì xiàng)— four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3]
→玄武区(Xuán wǔ qū)— Xuanwu (Black tortoise) district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
→真武(Zhēn wǔ)— Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity
→七魄(qī pò)— seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires
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