Zhang Wuji
| Zhang Wuji | |
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| Created by | Jin Yong |
| Appearances | The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber |
| Personal information | |
| Alias(es) | Xie Wuji (謝無忌) Zeng A'niu (曾阿牛) |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Zhang Cuishan (father), Yin Susu (mother), Xie Xun (godfather) |
| Spouse(s) | Zhao Min |
| Romantic interest(s) |
Zhou Zhiruo, Xiaozhao, Yin Li |
| Affiliations | |
| Organisations |
Official affiliations: Ming Cult (34th leader) Indirect affiliations: Wudang Sect |
| Teachers |
Unofficial teachers: Zhang Sanfeng, "Seven Heroes of Wudang", Hu Qingniu, Wang Nangu |
| Skills and abilities | |
| Qinggong | Cloud Ascending Ladder |
| Neigong | Wudang Nine Yang Skill, Nine Yang Divine Skill |
| Unarmed combat skills | Seven Injuries Fist, Wudang Long Fist, Taiji Fist, Heaven and Earth Great Shift, Dragon Claw Hand |
| Armed combat skills | Taiji Swordplay, Martial arts of the Holy Flame Tablets |
| Weapons | Dragon Slaying Saber, Heaven Reliant Sword, Peachwood Sword, Taiji Sword, Baihong Sword, Holy Flame Tablets, Plum tree branch |
| Zhang Wuji | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 張無忌 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 张无忌 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhāng Wújì |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Zoeng1 Mou4-gei6 |
Zhang Wuji is the fictional protagonist of the wuxia novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong (Louis Cha).
Zhang was born on Ice Fire Island. His parents are Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu. He was named by his godfather Xie Xun in memory of the his deceased son Xie Wuji. He spends the next nine years of his life on the island with them and learns some basic survival skills, martial arts and academia from them. When he became older, his parents decide to return to the mainland with him, while Xie Xun stays behind and refuses to leave with them.
Upon their return to mainland China, the family arouses the attention of several martial artists in the wulin (martial artists' community), who keep pestering them to divulge the whereabouts of Xie Xun and the Dragon Slaying Saber. Zhang is captured by the Xuanming Elders, who injure him with their 'Xuanming Divine Palm', but is rescued by his father's teacher Zhang Sanfeng later. His parents commit suicide in defiance after many people attempt to force them to reveal Xie Xun's hiding place.
Zhang Wuji is deeply traumatised by the loss of his parents and he suffers from his wounds. After receiving treatment for his injuries from his grandteacher and his father's fellows for two years, they teach him the 'Wudang Nine Yang Skill', in hope that it will cure him, but it only helps to minimise his suffering. Zhang Sanfeng brings him to seek treatment and they run into Chang Yuchun and Zhou Zhiruo. Zhang Sanfeng saves Chang and Zhou from some pursuers and entrusts Zhang Wuji to Chang's care. Chang brings Zhang to Butterfly Valley, where the physician Hu Qingniu lives. Hu partially succeeds in healing Zhang by slowing down the effects of the poison in his wound and imparts his medical knowledge to Zhang indirectly when Zhang stays with him while recovering. Hu's wife Wang Nangu also imparts her knowledge of toxicology to Zhang.
Zhang meets Ji Xiaofu of the Emei Sect and her daughter Yang Buhui at Butterfly Valley and they become close friends. Zhang especially bonds with Ji as the result of the compassion she showed him after his parents died, and in return he treats Ji's daughter like a sister. After Ji is killed by Miejue, Zhang brings Yang Buhui to her father Yang Xiao after a perilous journey to the Kunlun Mountains. He encounters Zhu Jiuzhen later and has a crush on her. Zhu's family accepts him and Zhu's father Zhu Changling even agrees to marry his daughter to him. However, Zhang discovers that the Zhus and others are actually planning to trick him to reveal his godfather's whereabouts. He escapes death narrowly after Zhu Changling attempts to kill him. He crawls through a narrow tunnel and arrives in Nameless Valley.
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