Zhu Bajie
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| Vietnamese | Trư Bát Giới | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Thai | ตือโป๊ยก่าย | ||||||||||||||||||||
| RTGS | Tue Poikai (from Teochew "Tu poih-kài") | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 저팔계 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hiragana | ちょ はっかい | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhū Bājiè |
| Wade–Giles | Chu1 Pa1-chieh4 |
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| Romanization | Chu Pa̍t Kāi |
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| Jyutping | Zyu1 Baat3 Gaai3 |
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| Hokkien POJ | Tu Pat-kài |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhū Wùnéng |
| Wade–Giles | Chu1 Wu4-neng2 |
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| Jyutping | Zyu1 Ng6 Nang4 |
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| Revised Romanization | Jeo Palgye |
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| Romanization | Cho Hakkai |
Zhu Bajie (Chinese: 猪 八戒; pinyin: Zhū Bājiè), also named Zhu Wuneng, is one of the three helpers of Xuanzang and a major character of the novel Journey to the West. Zhu means "swine", and Bajie means "eight precepts". Buddhist scholars consider that both expressions are related to "Śīla pāramitā". In many English versions of the story, Zhu Bajie is called "Pigsy" or "Pig".
Zhu Bajie is a complex and developed character in the novel. He looks like a terrible monster, part human and part pig, who often gets himself and his companions into trouble through his laziness, gluttony, and propensity for lusting after pretty women. He is jealous of Sun Wukong and always tries to bring him down.
His Buddhist name "Zhu Wuneng", given by Bodhisattva Guanyin, means "pig (reincarnated) who is aware of ability," or "pig who rises to power", a reference to the fact that he values himself so much as to forget his own grisly appearance. Xuanzang gave him the nickname Bājiè which means "eight restraints, or eight commandments" to remind him of his Buddhist diet.
In the original Chinese novel, he is often called dāizi (呆子), meaning "idiot". Sun Wukong, Xuanzang and even the author consistently refers to him as "the idiot" over the course of the story. Bodhisattvas and other heavenly beings usually refer to him as "Heavenly Tumbleweed", his former name when he was a heavenly marshal.
Zhu Bajie originally held the title of Tiānpéng Yuánshuài (天蓬元帅; lit. "Marshal Canopy"), commander-in-chief of 80,000 Heavenly Navy Soldiers. However, he was later banished for misbehavior. At a party organized for all the significant figures in Heaven, Bajie saw the Goddess of the Moon for the first time and was captivated by her beauty. Following a drunken attempt to sexually harass her, she reported this to the Jade Emperor and thus he was banished to Earth. In popular retellings, Zhu Bajie was sentenced to a thousand lives where each life would end in a love tragedy. In some retellings of the story, his banishment is linked to Sun Wukong's downfall. In any case, he was exiled from Heaven and sent to be reincarnated on Earth, where by mishap he fell into a pig well and was reborn as a man-eating pig-monster known as Zhū Gāngliè (猪刚鬛the "strong-maned pig").
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