落鼻祖
luò​bí​zǔ

Dropping-Nose Ancestor

  • created sense approved 落鼻祖 · luò​bí​zǔ · Dropping-Nose Ancestor — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    落鼻祖

    luò​bí​zǔ

    Dropping-Nose Ancestor

    an honorific for the deity Qingshui Zushi, so named because the nose of his statue is said to drop as a warning of impending disaster

    落 (literal) → 落 · luò · to fall 鼻祖 (literal) → 鼻祖 · bí​zǔ · earliest ancestor

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

    created sense