created sense approved 貂蝉/貂蟬 · diāochán · high officials — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
貂蝉 / 貂蟬
diāochán
high officials
(literary) high-ranking officials or nobility (from the hat ornaments worn by such officials)
貂 (literal) → 貂 · diāo · marten 蝉 (literal) → 蝉/蟬 · chán · cicada
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created sense approved 貂蝉/貂蟬 · diāochán · Diaochan — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
貂蝉 / 貂蟬
diāochán
Diaochan
Diaochan, one of the four legendary beauties of ancient China; she is famous in the novel [[三国演义|三國演義|san1 guo2 yan3 yi4]] for helping to overthrow the warlord [[董卓|董卓|dong3 zhuo2]] by causing a rift between him and [[吕布|呂布|lu:3 bu4]]
貂 (phonetic) 蝉 (phonetic)
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created sense approved 貂蝉/貂蟬 · diāochán · hat ornaments — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
貂蝉 / 貂蟬
diāochán
hat ornaments
Sable tails and jade cicadas used as ornaments on the hats of high-ranking military officials in ancient China
貂 (literal) → 貂 · diāo · marten 蝉 (literal) → 蝉/蟬 · chán · cicada
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition