taotie

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 饕餮 (tāotiè).

Noun

taotie (plural taoties or taotie)

1. A motif depicting a gluttonous ogre, commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty.

Translations

motif depicting a gluttonous ogre

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 饕餮 (zh) (tāotiè)

• Finnish: taotie -aihe
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• Japanese: 饕餮 (とうてつ, tōtetsu)
• Russian: таоте́ n (taoté)