吳剛伐桂
wú​gāng​fá​guì

Wu Gang chops the laurel

  • created sense approved 吴刚伐桂/吳剛伐桂 · wú​gāng​fá​guì · Wu Gang chops the laurel — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    吴刚伐桂 / 吳剛伐桂

    wú​gāng​fá​guì

    Wu Gang chops the laurel

    Chinese legend of a man condemned to endlessly chop down a self-healing laurel tree on the moon

    吴刚 (literal) → 吴刚/吳剛 · wú​gāng · Wu Gang 伐 (literal) → 伐 · fá · to fell 桂 (literal) → 桂 · guì · cinnamon or laurel

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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