# Maps HTML entity numbers of Chinese characters to English meaning # This table is barely adequate for translating the Shennong Bencao. # In general, the meanings of Chinese characters are much broader. # Last edited on 2004-05-30 14:35:24 by stolfi # 一 one/another 三 three 上 upper/goes-up 下 lower 不 not 中 middle/center/in 丹 red/cinnabar 久 long 五 five 人 person 令 causes 便 plain/easy/then/so 傷 injury/wound 出 exits 利 benefit/sharp 去 removes/goes-away 名 name 味 tastes 堅 strong/firm/solid 大 great/big 女 woman 子 NOUN-SUFF 安 calm/pacifies 定 stabilizes 寒 cold 實 real/true 小 little/young 山 mountain/hill 川 river/floodplain 平 flat/level/equal 年 years 延 extends 強 strenghtens/powerful/better 微 tiny/a-little 心 heart 悸 afraid 惡 evil/loathe/nauseated 明 brightens 智 wits 服 take # For medicieness 止 stops 死 dies/unyielding 殺 kill 毒 poison 氣 vital-breath # qi4 = "Qi", the "vital energy" of Taoist medicine 水 water 池 pond/reservoir 治 cures 注 injects/pours-into 溫 lukewarm 濕 moist/wet 甘 sweet 生 grows 疾 sickness 痛 pain 痺 numbness/paralysis 瘡 sore/skin-ulcer 癇 epilepsy/insanity 癰 carbuncle 白 white 百 hundred 皮 skin 益 benefits/increases 目 eyes 破 breaks/splits 神 spirit/soul 積 accumulates 筋 muscle 節 part/point 精 energy/essence 結 binds/bears-fruit/sturdy 老 elderly 耐 is-unbearable 聚 gathers 肉 meat/flesh 肌 muscle/flesh 腫 swollen 腸 intestines 腹 abdomen/stomach 膚 skin 苦 bitter/painful 草 grass/rough 藏 viscera # zang4 = actually "repository"; mistaken for 臟 ? 蝕 consume-slowly 蟲 worm/insect/animal 蠱 insanity/poison 血 blood 補 helps/repairs 諸 all/many/various 谷 valley 赤 red 身 body 輕 lightens 辛 tired/8th-heaven-stem 逆 opposes/contrary 通 opens/goes-through 邪 evil 酸 sour/acid/sore 金 metal/gold 銀 silver 長 long/forever 閉 closes/stops-up 開 opens 除 eliminates 陰 fem-principle # yin1 = "Yin" of "Yin and Yang" 青 blue-green 面 fades/side/aspect/face/flour 頭 head 風 wind/manner/custom 食 food/fodder 飢 hungry 驚 fright/startles/alarms 骨 bone 鬼 ghost/craft/sly 魂 ethereal-soul 魄 corporeal-soul 鹹 salty 黃 sulfur/yellow 熱 heat/heats-up 澤 marsh/beneficence 石 stone