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Chinese
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to exceed; to climb over; to surpass to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more ... the more
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king; Wang (proper name)
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head; (noun suffix)
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| trad. (越王頭)
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越
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王
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頭
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| simp. (越王头)
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越
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王
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头
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| Literally: “head of the Prince of Yue (an ancient kingdom or geographic designation)”.
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Etymology
The name derives from a myth recorded in the Nanfang Caomu Zhuang (《南方草木狀》) from the Western Jin Dynasty, which relates the appearance of the coconut to a prince of Yue decapitated by a rival prince of Linyi (林邑). The Compendium of Materia Medica disregards the story as fantastical but records the name as a folk designation.
Pronunciation
Noun
越王頭
- (obsolete) Alternative name for 椰子 (yēzi, “coconut”).