莽牯朱蛤

mǎnggǔzhūhá
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary / uncertain) red-bellied toad; a brightly colored frog mentioned in Jin Yong's novels

Examples

HSK 5
Mǎnggǔzhūhá de zhēnshí shēnfèn zài xiànshí zhōng nányǐ quèdìng.
The real-world identity of the mǎnggǔ zhūhá is hard to pin down.
HSK 7-9
《 Shéndiāo Xiálǚ 》 lǐ tídào guò mǎnggǔzhūhá zhèzhǒng qíyì de dúwù.
The Return of the Condor Heroes mentions the bizarre venomous creature called "Mang-gu Red Toad."

Tips

culture
Best known from Jin Yong's wuxia novel 《神雕侠侣》 (The Return of the Condor Heroes), where 莽牯朱蛤 ("Mang-gu red toad") is a legendary creature whose blood confers immunity to poison. Some readers identify it with real red-bellied toads (Bombina) or the cinnamon frog, but there is no clean zoological match - honest best read is that this is a semi-fictional / literary creature name rather than a standard taxonomy term.

Stroke Order

mǎng
zhū