峨眉山
Meanings
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- 1.see 峨眉山市[É méi shān Shì]
- 1.Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism
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Wiktionary
- 1.Mount Emei
- 2.Emeishan (a county-level city of Sichuan, China)
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Etymology
峨眉 derives from the word 蛾眉 (éméi, “the feathery feelers of a moth”), so named because the peaks of Mount Emei do in fact resemble the feelers of a moth (see pictures). The “insect” radical (虫) on the left side of the first character 蛾 (é) was later replaced with the “mountain” radical (山 (shān)). Thus, 蛾 (é) eventually became 峨 (é), so as to denote the mountain. The “mountain” radical can be optionally added to the second character 眉 (méi). Both 峨嵋 (Éméi) and 峨眉 have been used through the centuries. 山 (shān) simply means “mountain”.
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Stroke order
Components
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