[契丹, Qì dān, ㄑㄧˋ ㄉㄢ]Qidan; Khitan; ethnic people in ancient China who were a branch of the Eastern Hu people inhabiting the valley of the Xar Murun River in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River#19899[Add to Longdo]
[救星, jiù xīng, ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄒㄧㄥ]lit. saving star (cf star of Bethlehem in biblical nativity story); fig. savior (individual or organization); liberator; emancipator; knight in shining armor; cf Mao Zedong in north Shaanxi folk song The East is red 東方紅|东方红#31475[Add to Longdo]
[拆东墙补西墙 / 拆東牆補西牆, chāi dōng qiáng bǔ xī qiáng, ㄔㄞ ㄉㄨㄥ ㄑㄧㄤˊ ㄅㄨˇ ㄒㄧ ㄑㄧㄤˊ]lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (成语 saw); fig. temporary expedient; Rob Peter to pay Paul#77400[Add to Longdo]
[虾兵蟹将 / 蝦兵蟹將, xiā bīng xiè jiàng, ㄒㄧㄚ ㄅㄧㄥ ㄒㄧㄝˋ ㄐㄧㄤˋ]shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea); useless troops (成语 saw)#98906[Add to Longdo]
[正仓院 / 正倉院, Zhēng cāng yuàn, ㄓㄥ ㄘㄤ ㄩㄢˋ]Shōsō-in, treasure house belonging to Tōdai-ji 東大寺, Nara 奈良, Japan, an extensive repository of imperial treasures from Tang times; described as the east-most end of the Silk road#182629[Add to Longdo]
[拆东补西 / 拆東補西, chāi dōng bǔ xī, ㄔㄞ ㄉㄨㄥ ㄅㄨˇ ㄒㄧ]lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (成语 saw); fig. temporary expedient; Rob Peter to pay Paul#278813[Add to Longdo]
[せいりょう;しょうりょう;せいりゅう, seiryou ; shouryou ; seiryuu](n) (1) blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology); (2) (See 四神) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)#15843[Add to Longdo]
[akatsukihagi ; akiresutan](n) Achilles tang (Acanthurus achilles, species of surgeonfish found from the Western Pacific to the East Central Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[アメリカなぬかざめ;アメリカナヌカザメ, amerika nanukazame ; amerikananukazame](n) (uk) swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[kariforuniasuuerusha-ku ; kariforunia . suueru . sha-ku](n) (See アメリカナヌカザメ) swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[sabiiroootokage](n) rusty monitor (Varanus semiremex, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the east coast of Queensland, Australia)[Add to Longdo]
[sarubato-rumonita-; sarubato-ru . monita-](n) water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor[Add to Longdo]
[sukarappu . bonnettoheddo ; sukarappubonnettoheddo](n) scalloped bonnethead (Sphyrna corona, little-known species of hammerhead shark found in the eastern Pacific from southern Mexico to northern Peru)[Add to Longdo]
[supotteidorattofisshu ; haidororagusu . koriei ; haidororagusukoriei](n) spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, a shortnose chimaera found in the Eastern Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[suri-burocchido . rabittofisshu ; suri-burocchidorabittofisshu](n) threeblotched rabbitfish (Siganus trispilos, species of rabbitfish from the eastern Indian Ocean)[Add to Longdo]
[hiragashira ; mirukusha-ku](n) milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus, species of requiem shark found in the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[ヒレトガリザメか, hiretogarizame ka](n) (See ヘミガレウス科) Hemigaleidae (family of weasel sharks containing 8 known species in 4 genera found from the eastern Atlantic to the continental Indo-Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[ヘミガレウスか, hemigareusu ka](n) (See ヒレトガリザメ科) Hemigaleidae (family of weasel sharks containing 8 known species in 4 genera found from the eastern Atlantic to the continental Indo-Pacific)[Add to Longdo]
[howaitofin . hanma-heddo ; howaitofinhanma-heddo](n) whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)[Add to Longdo]
[montsukihagi](n) orangespot surgeonfish (Acanthurus olivaceus, species of tang found from the eastern Indian Ocean to the Pacific); orangeband surgeonfish[Add to Longdo]
[あんとうとごふ, antoutogofu](n) (See 都護府) Protectorate General to Pacify the East; Tang-period Chinese office established in Pyongyang in 668 CE[Add to Longdo]
[しじんそうおう, shijinsouou](n) an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north[Add to Longdo]
[みずおおとかげ;ミズオオトカゲ, mizuootokage ; mizuootokage](n) (uk) (See サルバトールモニター) water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor[Add to Longdo]
[そうりょう;そうりゅう, souryou ; souryuu](n) (1) blue dragon; (2) (See 青竜) Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens); (3) (See 二十八宿) seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens; (4) large horse with a bluish-leaden coat; (5) shape of an old pine tree[Add to Longdo]