Sun Wukong
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]
.jpg)
Sun Wukong statue and shrine at Waterloo Street, Singapore.
Statues of Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang guarding the two shrines behind them at the Wat Chetawan Temple, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
.jpg)
Sun Wukong statue and shrine at the Thien Hau Temple, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 孫悟空／孙悟空 (Sūn Wùkōng, literally “Monkey Awakened to Emptiness”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsʌn wuːˈkɒŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsʌn wuˈkɔŋ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈsʌn wuˈkɑŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ
Proper noun
[edit]Sun Wukong
- (Chinese mythology) A fictional anthropomorphic monkey with various abilities and magical powers best known for being one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese epic Journey to the West, and is revered as a deity by some Buddhists and most Taoists.
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]
Sun Wukong on Wikidata.Wikidata 
Sun Wukong on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin
- English terms derived from Hanyu Pinyin
- English terms borrowed from Mandarin
- English terms derived from Mandarin
- English terms borrowed from Chinese
- English terms derived from Chinese
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɒŋ
- Rhymes:English/ɒŋ/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English multiword terms
- en:Chinese mythology
- en:Buddhism
- en:Chinese fiction
- en:Fictional characters
- en:Individuals
- en:Taoism