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

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

Tips

culture
Best known from Jin Yong's wuxia novel 《》(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