精卫

See also: 精衛 and 精衞

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 精卫 – see 精衛 (“Jingwei, the daughter of the emperor Yandi who drowned at a young age in the East Sea and assumed the shape of a bird in order to exact revenge upon the sea by filling it up with pebbles; etc.”). (This term, 精卫, is the simplified form of 精衛.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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