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In Chinese, they are traditionally called simply shi (Chinese: 獅; pinyin: shī) meaning lion—the word shi itself is thought to be derived from the Persian word šer. [2] Lions were first presented to the Han court by emissaries from Central Asia and Persia , and were already popularly depicted as guardian figures by the sixth century AD. [ 3 ]
Shisa (Japanese: シーサー, Hepburn: shīsā, Okinawan: シーサー, romanized: shiisaa) is a traditional Ryukyuan cultural artifact and decoration derived from Chinese guardian lions, often seen in similar pairs, resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, from Okinawan mythology. Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils.
The shīsā (シーサー), the stone animals that in Okinawa guard the gates or the roofs of houses, are close relatives of the shishi and the komainu, objects whose origin, function and symbolic meaning they share. [22] Their name itself is centuries old regional variant of shishi-san (獅子さん, lit. ' Mr. Lion '). [6]
"Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" is a short narrative poem written in Literary Chinese, composed of around 92 to 94 characters (depending on the specific version) in which every word is pronounced shi when read in modern Standard Chinese, with only the tones differing.
He was given the shikona, or ring name, Shishi (獅司), from the kanji for 'lion' (獅), to evoke the hopes of his master that he will "become the king of beasts", and the kanji meaning 'to govern' (司), in deference to former coach and stable owner, the former sekiwake Tochitsukasa.
A lion dance performance is seen Monday ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Bangkok's Chinatown, Thailand. Chinese New Year, alternatively referred to as the Spring Festival, is ...
Chart of yotsugana pronunciation. The green zone including most of Tōhoku region means that the four yotsugana sounds have completely merged, as zi = di = zu = du.. A notable linguistic feature of the Tōhoku dialect is its neutralization of the high vowels "i" and "u" (Standard [i] and [ɯᵝ]) after coronal obstruents, so that the words sushi, susu ('soot'), and shishi ('lion') are rendered ...
A zookeeper at a wildlife park in Nigeria was reportedly mauled and killed by a lion after failing to secure the locks of the animal's enclosure.