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猪八戒

豬八戒
Zhū Bājiè
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Zhu Bajie ("Pigsy")
  2. 2 pig-like disciple in Journey to the West

About Zhu Bajie

文学人物 fictional character

The pig-faced second disciple of the monk 唐僧 in 西游记. Once a heavenly marshal, he was reborn as a pig for flirting with 嫦娥. Greedy, lazy and funny, his name is a joking word for a glutton.

Also called  悟能、 八戒、 天蓬元帅

Examples

HSK 3
Tā bèi tóngxué jiào Zhū Bājiè.
His classmates call him Zhu Bajie.
HSK 7-9
Zhū Bājiè yòu chán yòu lǎn.
Zhu Bajie is both gluttonous and lazy.
HSK 7-9
Zhū Bājiè shì Sūn Wùkōng de shīdì.
Zhu Bajie is Sun Wukong's junior disciple-brother.

Tips

usage
His weapon is a nine-toothed rake, 九齿钉耙. His trick of striking backwards with it gave the idiom 倒打一耙: to answer criticism by blaming the person who made it.
usage
He stars in two-part sayings like 猪八戒照镜子,里外不是人, 'Pigsy looks in the mirror: not human inside or out', said of someone who gets blamed by both sides.

In Pop Culture

西游记 Xīyóujì
Journey to the West
Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en where Zhu Bajie appears as Tang Sanzang's second disciple.
八戒 Bā jiè
the Eight Precepts
Buddhist vows Zhu Bajie is supposed to observe - his name literally means 'eight abstentions,' which he is famously bad at keeping.

Stroke Order

猪 zhū
八 bā
戒 jiè