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- Mandarin · borrowed from饕餮
- English todaytaotie
Borrowed from Mandarin 饕餮 (tāotiè).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
taotie
Today it means: A motif depicting a gluttonous ogre, commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty. Full definition →
Mandarin 饕餮