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See also: Chinese Zodiac / Animal Years
動物王國 is literally what it says.
There is even a TV show in China that is similar to Wild Kingdom or what you would currently see on the Discovery Channel that has this same title.
For your information: In the Chinese way of thinking, the Tiger is the king of the animal kingdom (lions are not native to China, so the tiger took the role that we have given to the lion in our western way of thinking).
The modern Japanese version has a slight variation on the last character (国 instead of 國). Let me know if you want the modern Japanese version (國 would be considered the old or traditional version).
In ancient China, 饕餮 was a ferocious mythological animal and the fifth son of the dragon king.
饕餮 can also refer to a zoomorphic mask motif found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes.
As an adjective, this can mean gluttonous, sumptuous (banquet), covetousness, greed, avarice, or intense desire.
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your Animal King search...
| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
饕餮 see styles |
tāo tiè tao1 tie4 t`ao t`ieh tao tieh toutetsu / totetsu とうてつ |
More info & calligraphy: Taotie(1) (hist) taotie (Chinese mythological creature commonly represented as a motif on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties); (2) (archaism) covetousness; greed; avarice intense desire |
慈力王 see styles |
cí lì wáng ci2 li4 wang2 tz`u li wang tzu li wang Jiriki ō |
Maitrībala-rāja, king of merciful virtue, or power, a former incarnation of the Buddha when, as all his people had embraced the vegetarian life, and yakṣas had no animal food and were suffering, the king fed five of them with his own blood. |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Animal Kingdom | 動物王國 动物王国 | doubutsu oukoku doubutsuoukoku dobutsu okoku | dòng wù wáng guó dong4 wu4 wang2 guo2 dong wu wang guo dongwuwangguo | tung wu wang kuo tungwuwangkuo |
| Taotie | 饕餮 | tou tetsu / toutetsu / to tetsu | tāo tiè / tao1 tie4 / tao tie / taotie | t`ao t`ieh / taotieh / tao tieh |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
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