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Shen (clam-monster), the Glossary

In Chinese mythology, the shen or chen is a shapeshifting dragon or shellfish-type sea monster believed to create mirages.^[1]

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Antares

Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius.

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Asterism (astronomy)

An asterism is an observed pattern or group of stars in the sky.

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Austroasiatic languages

The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.

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The Azure Dragon (Chinese: 青龍 Qīnglóng), also known as Qinglong in Chinese, is one of the Dragon Gods who represent the mount or chthonic forces of the Five Regions' Highest Deities (五方上帝 Wǔfāng Shàngdì). Shen (clam-monster) and Azure Dragon are Chinese dragons.

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Bagua

The bagua is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.

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Bencao Gangmu

The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of Materia Medica or Great Pharmacopoeia, is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history, and Chinese herbology compiled and edited by Li Shizhen and published in the late 16th century, during the Ming dynasty.

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Bernhard Karlgren

Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren (15 October 1889 – 20 October 1978) was a Swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods.

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Bivalvia

Bivalvia, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts.

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Book of Rites

The Book of Rites, also known as the Liji, is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods.

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Chinese character radicals

A radical, or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.

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Chinese classics

The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC.

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Chinese constellations

Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese xīng guān).

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Chinese dictionary

There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: list individual Chinese characters, and list words and phrases.

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Chinese dragon

The Chinese Dragon is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture at large. Shen (clam-monster) and Chinese dragon are Chinese dragons.

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Chinese folklore

Chinese folklore encompasses the folklore of China, and includes songs, poetry, dances, puppetry, and tales.

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Chinese mythology

Chinese mythology is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China.

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Compound (linguistics)

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.

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Constellation

A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.

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Dragon (zodiac)

The dragon is the fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Shen (clam-monster) and dragon (zodiac) are Chinese dragons.

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Duodecimal

The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base.

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Earthly Branches

The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia.

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East Asia

East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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Edward H. Schafer

Edward Hetzel Schafer (August 23, 1913 – February 9, 1991) was an American historian, sinologist, and writer noted for his expertise on the Tang dynasty, and was a professor of Chinese at University of California, Berkeley, for 35 years.

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Erya

The Erya or Erh-ya is the first surviving Chinese dictionary.

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Fata Morgana (mirage)

A label is a complex form of superior mirage visible in a narrow band right above the horizon.

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Giant clam

Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the most well-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve mollusks.

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Guo Pu

Guo Pu (AD 276–324), courtesy name Jingchun, was a Chinese historian, poet, and writer during the Eastern Jin period, and is best known as one of China's foremost commentators on ancient texts.

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Guoyu (book)

The Guoyu, usually translated Discourses of the States, is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of speeches attributed to rulers and other men from the Spring and Autumn period (771–476 BC).

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.

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Heart (Chinese constellation)

The Heart mansion (also called) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations.

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Huai River

The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of.

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Huainanzi

The Huainanzi is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of essays that resulted from a series of scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, sometime before 139 BCE.

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Huashu

The Huashu, or The Book of Transformations, is a 930 CE Daoist classic about neidan "internal alchemy", psychological subjectivity, and spiritual transformation.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Jiaolong

Jiaolong or jiao (chiao, kiao) is a dragon in Chinese mythology, often defined as a "scaled dragon"; it is hornless according to certain scholars and said to be aquatic or river-dwelling. Shen (clam-monster) and Jiaolong are Chinese dragons.

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Korean language

Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.

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Lüshi Chunqiu

The Lüshi Chunqiu, also known in English as Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239BC under the patronage of late pre-imperial Qin Chancellor Lü Buwei.

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Lidong

The traditional Chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms.

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Light novel

A light novel (Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel native to Japan, usually classified as young adult fiction targeting teens to twenties.

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Lunisolar calendar

A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Mirage

A mirage is a naturally-occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Mussel

Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.

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Nacre

Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer.

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Naruto

Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto.

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Nāga

In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art.

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Old Chinese

Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.

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Oracle bone script

Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC.

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Oyster

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.

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Pearl of Lao Tzu

The Pearl of Lao Tzu was once considered the largest known pearl.

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Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.

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Piya

The Piya ("Increased ya") was a Chinese dictionary compiled by Song Dynasty scholar Lu Dian (陸佃/陆佃, 1042-1102).

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Qin (state)

Qin (or Ch'in) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Radical 130

Radical 130 or radical meat meaning "meat" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

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Radical 173

Radical 173 or radical rain meaning "rain" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

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Radical 38

Radical 38 or radical woman meaning "woman" or "female" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

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Radical 64

Radical 64 or radical hand meaning "hand" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

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Radical 72

Radical 72 or radical sun meaning "sun" or "day" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

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Revised Romanization of Korean

Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea.

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Rites of Zhou

The Rites of Zhou, originally known as "Officers of Zhou", is a Chinese work on bureaucracy and organizational theory.

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Scorpius

Scorpius is a zodiac constellation located in the Southern celestial hemisphere, where it sits near the center of the Milky Way, between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east.

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Sea monster

Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and are often imagined to be of immense size.

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Semantic field

In linguistics, a semantic field is a lexical set of words grouped semantically (by meaning) that refers to a specific subject.

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Shapeshifting

In mythology, folklore, and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means.

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Shellfish

Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

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Shuangjiang (solar term)

The traditional Chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms (节气/節氣).

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Shuowen Jiezi

The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE).

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Tail (Chinese constellation)

The Tail mansion (尾宿, pinyin: Wěi Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations.

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Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy

is a Japanese light novel series written by Kei Azumi and illustrated by Mitsuaki Matsumoto.

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Twenty-Eight Mansions

The Twenty-Eight Mansions, also called xiu or hsiu, are part of the Chinese constellations system.

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Wenlin Software for learning Chinese

Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese is a software application designed by Tom Bishop, who is also president of the Wenlin Institute.

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Wolfram Eberhard

Wolfram Eberhard (March 17, 1909 – August 15, 1989) was a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central and Eastern Asian societies.

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Zhuangzi (book)

The Zhuangzi (historically romanized) is an ancient Chinese text that is one of the two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching.

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Zuo Zhuan

The Zuo Zhuan, often translated The Zuo Tradition or The Commentary of Zuo, is an ancient Chinese narrative history that is traditionally regarded as a commentary on the ancient Chinese chronicle Spring and Autumn Annals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_(clam-monster)

, Oracle bone script, Oyster, Pearl of Lao Tzu, Phonetics, Pinyin, Piya, Qin (state), Radical 130, Radical 173, Radical 38, Radical 64, Radical 72, Revised Romanization of Korean, Rites of Zhou, Scorpius, Sea monster, Semantic field, Shapeshifting, Shellfish, Shuangjiang (solar term), Shuowen Jiezi, Tail (Chinese constellation), Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy, Twenty-Eight Mansions, Wenlin Software for learning Chinese, Wolfram Eberhard, Zhuangzi (book), Zuo Zhuan.

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Chinese dragons

Mythological molluscs

Yaoguai

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