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butterfly / CL: 隻|只
The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
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  *蝶* | 蝶* | *蝶
(bound form) butterfly
The Butterfly Lovers, a Chinese folktale (abbr. for 梁山伯與祝英台|梁山伯与祝英台)
butterfly effect (dynamical systems theory)
butterfly stroke (swimming)
lit. (of a flower) to attract bees and butterflies (idiom) / fig. to flirt
pierid (butterfly of the Pieridae family)
swallowtail butterfly
Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)
lit. to break through a cocoon and turn into a butterfly (idiom) / fig. to emerge strong after a period of struggle / to get to a better place after going through difficult period
swallow tail butterfly (family Papilionidae)
(female) social butterfly; socialite / courtesan
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
papillon (lapdog with butterfly-like ears)
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) / derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900
to emerge from a pupa (of a butterfly etc)
butterfly (family)
Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 dreams of a butterfly (or is it the butterfly dreaming of Zhuangzi?)
common tiger butterfly (Danaus genutia)
nymphalid / butterfly
scaly wing / Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)


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