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Wangliang

In Chinese folklore, a wangliang (Chinese: 魍魎; pinyin: wǎngliǎng or Chinese: 罔兩) is a type of malevolent spirit. Interpretations of the wangliang include a wilderness spirit, similar to the kui, a water spirit akin to the Chinese dragon, a fever demon like the yu (魊; "a poisonous three-legged turtle"), a graveyard ghost also called wangxiang (罔象) or…

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Baxter–Sagart (2014)
maŋʔp.raŋʔ
Hangul
망량
Hanyu Pinyin
wǎngliǎng
Hiragana
もうりょう
Kanji
魍魎
McCune–Reischauer
mangnyang

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Wangliang

Nodes68
Edges67
Triples126
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029412
Components1

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Wangliang

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related to Name · 17
Wangliang → AD, BC, BCE, Chinese, For, Guoyu, In, In Warring States, James Legge's Zuozhuan, Kongzi Jiayu, Shiji, Shuowen, Since, The, While, Wǎngliǎng, Zuozhuan
related to Guoyu · 13
Wangliang → BCE, Confucius, Discourses, Duke Ding, Huannanzi, Ji Huanzi, Jin, Lu, States, The Guoyu, The Shiji, This, Wei Zhao's
related to Shuowen Jiezi · 13
Wangliang → CE, Even, Gan Bao's Soushenji, Huainan, Huainanzi, It, Records, Searching, Spirits, The, The King, Xia Dingji, Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi
related to Zhouli · 13
Wangliang → BCE, CE, Compendium, Fangliang, Fangxiangshi, It, Li Shizhen's Bencao Gangmu, Materia Medica, Rites, That, The Zhouli, Zheng Xuan's, Zhou Dynasty
related to Lunheng · 11
Wangliang → BCE, CE, Henan, Liji, Luo, Luo River, Shaanxi, Wang Chong's Lunheng, Wolfram Eberhard, Yunnan, Zhuanxu's
related to Zuozhuan · 11
Wangliang → Autumn Annals, BCE, China's Nine Provinces, Chunqiu, Great, In, Nine Tripod Cauldrons, Spring, The Zuozhuan, Xia, Yu
related to Zhuangzi · 9
Wangliang → Amorphous, BCE, Daoist, In, Jing, Penumbra, The Zhuangzi, Two, Zhuangzi
related to Baopuzi · 8
Wangliang → Ge Hong, Ge Hong's Baopuzi, In, One, Shuowen Jiezi, This, Truth-Unity, Zheng Yin
related to Huainanzi · 8
Wangliang → BCE, Fenyang, Fuxi, Guoyu, Major, Nüwa, The, The Huainanzi
related to Chuci · 5
Wangliang → BCE, Chuci, Seven Remonstrances, The, Wang Yi's

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魍魎 罔象 罔兩 water wangxiang bce chinese demons demon people spirit also penumbra dead ghost called see long names century

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
WangliangBaxter–Sagart (2014)maŋʔp.raŋʔ1.00infobox
WangliangHangul망량1.00infobox
WangliangHanyu Pinyinwǎngliǎng1.00infobox
WangliangHiraganaもうりょう1.00infobox
WangliangKanji魍魎1.00infobox
WangliangMcCune–Reischauermangnyang1.00infobox
WangliangMiddle ChinesemjangXljangX1.00infobox
WangliangRevised Hepburnmōryō1.00infobox
WangliangRevised Romanizationmangnyang1.00infobox
WangliangSimplified Chinese魍魉1.00infobox
WangliangTraditional Chinese魍魎1.00infobox
WangliangTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinwǎngliǎngWade–Gileswang-liangMiddle ChineseMiddle ChinesemjangXljangXOld ChineseBaxter–Sagart (2014)maŋʔp.raŋʔ1.00infobox
WangliangTranscriptionsTranscriptionsRevised RomanizationmangnyangMcCune–Reischauermangnyang1.00infobox
WangliangTranscriptionsTranscriptionsRevised Hepburnmōryō1.00infobox
WangliangWade–Gileswang-liang1.00infobox

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