吳鳳
wú​fèng

Wu Feng

  • created sense approved 吴凤/吳鳳 · wú​fèng · Wu Feng — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    吴凤 / 吳鳳

    wú​fèng

    Wu Feng

    A historical figure (1699-1769) from the Qing Dynasty who served as an administrator in the Alishan region of Taiwan; he was famously mythologized during the Japanese colonial era for sacrificing his life to stop headhunting practices, though historians have since challenged the accuracy of this account.

    吴 (literal) → 吴/吳 · wú · Wu 凤 (literal) → 凤/鳳 · fèng · Feng

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

    created sense