"Fairy" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 jīng líng spirit / fairy / elf / sprite / genie
 xiān zǐ fairy
 xiān nu:3 fairy
 tiān xiān immortal (esp. female) / deity / fairy / Goddess / fig. beautiful woman
 liǎng sprite / fairy
 shén huà legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology
 tóng huà children's fairy tales
 shén xiān Daoist immortal / supernatural entity / (in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc / fig. lighthearted person
 yù nu:3 beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
 tóng huà gù shì fairy tale
 yíng huǒ light of firefly / fairy light
 xiān shān qióng gé jeweled palace in the fairy mountain
 bǎo hú lu de mì mì Secret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 張天翼|张天翼[Zhang1 Tian1 yi4]
 Zhāng Tiān yì Zhang Tianyi (1906-1985), children's writer, author of prize-winning fairy tale Secret of the Magic Gourd 寶葫蘆的秘密|宝葫芦的秘密[Bao3 hu2 lu5 de5 Mi4 mi4]
 xiān bā sè dōng (bird species of China) fairy pitta (Pitta nympha)
 Láng huán mythical fairy realm
 Jiǔ tiān Xuán nu:3 Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology
 shén nu:3 yǒu xīn , Xiāng Wáng wú mèng lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom) / (said of a woman's unrequited love)
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