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Bixiao Niangniang is one of the three immortal ladies of Sanxian Island in Investiture of the Gods, a sister of Zhao Gongming, and a member of the Three Xiao Ladies with Yunxiao and Qiongxiao. Wikidata records her as a deity who died in battle; in the book the three sisters are defeated and then made gods.
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Ma Daopo is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, the godmother to whom Jia Baoyu is nominally entrusted, and a woman who follows money. At Concubine Zhao's urging she uses sorcery to harm Baoyu and Wang Xifeng, who are saved by a monk and a Daoist, and in chapter 81 she is caught and handed to the authorities.
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Shunfeng'er, or With-the-Wind Ear, is a divine general of folk belief and fiction who can hear distant sounds. Paired with Qianliyan, he serves as a guardian of the sea goddess Mazu and is also called the Water Essence General. His origin is told in several ways, one making him Gao Jue, a general of King Zhou of Shang.
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Huo Qi is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, a servant of Zhen Shiyin's household who appears in chapter 1. Wikidata records his family name as Huo and his occupation as domestic worker, working and living at the Zhen Mansion on Renqing Street.
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Jin Wenxiang is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber, the elder brother of Yuanyang and a purchasing agent for the Lady Dowager. Wikidata records him as a domestic servant surnamed Jin, with Jin Cai as his father and the wife of Jin Wenxiang as his spouse.
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Qin Ming is a character in Water Margin, one of the 108 Liangshan heroes, matched with the Heavenly Fierce Star, nicknamed Thunderbolt, who wields a spiked club and ranks third of the Five Tiger Generals of the cavalry. A commander at Qingzhou driven onto Liangshan by Song Jiang's scheme, he is killed in the campaign against Fang La when Fang Jie unseats him in Qingxi County.
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King Mulu is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the lord of the Barbarian Bana Cave, who serves under Meng Huo and is skilled in magic. In the novel he rides an elephant into battle and is trampled to death in the fight against Zhuge Liang; Wikidata records his death year as 225.
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Concubine Zhao, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is Jia Zheng's concubine and the birth mother of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan. She was born a household slave. Jealous that Baoyu was favored over Jia Huan, she has Ma Daopo curse Xifeng and Baoyu. She also quarrels with Tanchun over the funeral silver for her brother Zhao Guoji and beats Fangguan in public. The sources give no personal name.
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Misty (Japanese Kasumi, Chinese Xiaoxia) is a fictional character of the Pokémon franchise and the female lead of the original Pokémon anime series. She dreams of becoming the greatest water-type Pokémon trainer and is a gym leader of Cerulean City.
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Lai Shangrong, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Lai Da and the grandson of Nanny Lai. Servants and a wet nurse raised him, and he studied for office. At twenty the Jia favor bought him a qualification. At thirty, again through the Jia house, he was selected as a county magistrate. This entry records him as a political figure.
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Jia Rong, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is Jia Zhen's son. He began as a student of the Imperial Academy. After Qin Keqing died, Jia Zhen spent a thousand taels to buy him the fifth-rank post of dragon-forbidden commandant, and he later married a woman of the Xu family. He helps Wang Xifeng trick Jia Rui and suggests how Jia Lian can secretly marry You Erjie. In chapter 105, when the house is raided, he too is held.
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Jia Qiang, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is a legitimate great-great-grandson of the Ningguo house. His parents died early and he grew up with Jia Zhen. He attends school in name only. He later manages the family troupe and loves Lingguan. A commentary hints that they marry and that he helps the Jia house after its fall.
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Zhou Shan is a fictional character invented for Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with no historical counterpart. In the novel he is a household general of Sun Quan, sent to Jingzhou to bring Lady Sun back to Wu, and he is killed by Zhang Fei when the party is intercepted in chapter 61.
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Jia Jun, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is a great-great-grandson of the near branch of the Rongguo house and the son of Madam Lou. His father died early. At the family school he is closest to Jia Lan. In the school fight he helps Mingyan. He attends Qin Keqing's funeral in chapter 13, and nothing further is told.
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Gong Zhi (鞏志) is a fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a staff officer under Jin Xuan, governor of Wuling. When Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei against Wuling, he urged Jin Xuan to surrender and was refused, so he shot Jin Xuan dead, led the people over to Liu Bei, and was later appointed governor of Wuling.
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Dailai Dongzhu is a fictional figure in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the younger brother of Lady Zhurong, Meng Huo's wife, and a leader of the eight fan. He recommends King Mulu and Wutu Gu, once binds Meng Huo and his wife in a false surrender, and at last submits to Shu Han with them. No personal name is attested, so the title stays.
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Hu Sanniang, in Water Margin, is the daughter of the Hu manor lord. Her nickname is Yizhangqing. Lin Chong captures her. Song Jiang later matches her with Wang Ying, and she ranks fifty-ninth on Liangshan. In the Fang La campaign Zheng Biao kills her with a stone bullet. She is posthumously titled Lady of Huayang commandery.
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Jia Hua is a commander of Sun Quan in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At Hefei he and Song Qian guard Sun Quan. At the Sweet Dew Temple he hides three hundred men to kill Liu Bei. Lady Wu orders him beheaded, and Liu Bei's plea saves him.
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Qiutong, in this entry, is Jia Lian's concubine in Dream of the Red Chamber. Wikidata uses that name. The cited encyclopedia page is only a disambiguation and also lists Qiutong as a pen name of Zhang Shizhao. It gives no novel plot.
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Xing Daorong, in chapter 52 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a senior commander of Liu Du, governor of Lingling, and wields a mountain-splitting axe. After Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun capture him, he feigns surrender, the trap fails, and Zhao Yun kills him.
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Hu Ban, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is the son of the court gentleman Hu Hua. He served Wang Zhi at Xingyang, spared Guan Yu, and later joined Liu Bei as a general of the standard gate. The article says the man who reported Zhang Fei's death is also written Wu Ban. This entry dates Hu Ban's death to 234, which the article does not narrate.
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Jia Lan, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Jia Zhu and Li Wan and Jia Zheng's eldest grandson. After Jia Zhu died, Li Wan put her energy into raising him, had him read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and set him on the official path. In the last forty chapters continued by Gao E, he places one hundred thirtieth in the provincial examination.
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Jia Jing, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the grandson of Duke Ning, Jia Yan, and the second son of Jia Daihua. He was a jinshi of the Yimao examination, rank 5b, but left office and title to his son Jia Zhen and practiced alchemy at the Xuanzhen temple. In chapter 63 he dies of elixir poisoning.
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Bihen is a maid of Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber. She draws his bath. The cited article says the name is also written Bilang, so the title stays Bihen. Qingwen says one bath lasted two or three double-hours.
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Fang Yue is a fictional commander in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, serving Wang Kuang, governor of Henei. In chapter 5, before Hulao Pass, he rides out against Lü Bu and is killed in fewer than five bouts.
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Yan Zheng is a fictional commander in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, serving the Yellow Turban leader Zhang Bao. When the city was about to fall, he killed Zhang Bao and surrendered with the head.
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Jia Dairu, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is a collateral son of the Jia house's second generation and the family tutor. He is Jia Rui's grandfather. His son and daughter-in-law died early, and he kept Jia Rui under strict watch. When Wang Xifeng's trap of longing killed Jia Rui, Jia Dairu wept as if he would not live.
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Gongsun Sheng, in Water Margin, is a Daoist from Jizhou. His Daoist name is Yiqing, his nickname is the Dragon Entering the Clouds, and his star is Tianxianxing. He studied under Luo the Perfected. He joined the seizure of the birthday gift and later kept Liangshan's secrets. After Wang Qing, at Chenqiao post he recalled his teacher's words, returned to Jizhou, and did not join the Fang La campaign.
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Diting, also called Shanting, is a divine beast in Buddhism and Chinese myth, said to be Ksitigarbha's mount. The earliest record is the Account of Daoming's Return from the Dead, in 778. It is described with a tiger's head, a rhinoceros horn, a dog's ears, a dragon's body, a lion's tail, and qilin feet. This entry lists it under Journey to the West. No personal name is attested.
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Ouguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the young male. After the troupe was disbanded she entered Lin Daiyu's rooms. She and Diguan often acted as a married couple, and Diguan died young. Lady Wang later drove the actresses out, and Ouguan and Ruiguan became nuns with Yuanxin at Dizang nunnery.
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Kuiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her surname is Wei, and her role was the painted face. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Shi Xiangyun as a maid and renamed Wei Daying, from the phrase that only a great hero keeps an original color. Nothing further is told.
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Patriarch Subhuti, fully named Patriarch Subhuti of the Xu, is Sun Wukong's teacher in Journey to the West. He teaches the seventy-two transformations, long life, and the cloud somersault, and he forbids Wukong to reveal the school. The article gives several accounts of who he really is, so the title stays.
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Qieguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the old female. After the troupe was disbanded she was given to Madam You as a maid. After Lady Wang drove the actresses from the garden, the article says nothing further is known of her.
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Diguan, also written Yaoguan, is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the young female. She and Ouguan, who played the young male, often acted as a married couple. Diguan died young, and Ouguan wept as if she would not live.
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Fangguan, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing. Her surname is Hua, she is from Gusu, and her role was the principal female. After the troupe was disbanded she became Jia Baoyu's maid in the Yihong court. After the search of the garden, Lady Wang sent her to leave the household and become a nun with Zhitong of Shuiyue nunnery.
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Qianxue is one of the senior maids of the Yihong court in Dream of the Red Chamber. In chapter 8 the maple-dew tea angers Jia Baoyu, and he drives her out. Extant manuscripts do not mention her again. A commentary says the draft after chapter 80 still had her visit Baoyu in the prison-god temple, and the Guiyou text's chapter 95 has her die saving him.
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Aiguan is one of the twelve girls the Jia house bought to sing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her role was the comic old man. After the troupe was disbanded she became Jia Tanchun's maid. When Lady Wang drove the actresses from the garden, Aiguan's godmother took her away to arrange a marriage.
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Huang Jinying is the maid Xue Baochai brought from home in Dream of the Red Chamber. Her original name was Huang Jinying. Baochai found it awkward and called her Ying'er. She makes knotted cords and flower baskets. When Baochai reads the words on the jade, Ying'er says at once that they match the words on Baochai's necklet.
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The Ziwei Emperor, fully titled the Great Emperor of the Purple Tenuity of the North Pole in the Central Heaven, is one of the Four Sovereigns of Daoism and the second son of Doumu. Other accounts identify him with Lord Lao, Boyi Kao, or a reincarnation of Liu Bang, so the title stays. This entry lists him under Journey to the West.
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Shi Jin, in Water Margin, is the young master of Shi manor in Huayin county. His nickname is Nine Dragons and his star name is Tianweixing. He ranks twenty-third on Liangshan. He studied under Wang Jin. After the amnesty, in the Fang La campaign, he died at Yuling Pass in Muzhou under Pang Wanchun's arrow.
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Mu Shun, in chapter 5 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a commander of Zhang Yang. During the campaign against Dong Zhuo he challenges Lü Bu and is speared dead. Chapter 66 has a different man of the same name, a eunuch. This entry is the commander.
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Liu Xianglian is a young man of a hereditary family in Dream of the Red Chamber, nicknamed the Cold Gentleman and a friend of Jia Baoyu. He agreed to marry You Sanjie, broke it off after a rumor, and left with a Daoist after she killed herself.
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Zhen Baoyu, in Dream of the Red Chamber, is the son of Zhen Yingjia. He shares Jia Baoyu's name and is one year younger. He does not appear in the first eighty chapters. The cited article also says he later turned to an official career and parted from Jia Baoyu on bad terms.
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Xiahou Jie is a commander beside Cao Cao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In chapter 42, at Changban, Zhang Fei's roar frightens him off his horse and he dies. This entry dates his death to 208. Some Ming editions write the name as Xiahou Ba.
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Jiao Da is an old servant of the Ningguo house in Dream of the Red Chamber. He once followed Duke Ning, Jia Yan, on campaign, and in chapter 7 he got drunk and shouted abuse at the household.
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Wei Dingguo is the militia commander of Lingzhou in Water Margin, called the Divine Fire General. He defended Daming, later joined Liangshan, and died in an ambush during the campaign against Fang La.
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Wu Yong (died 1124), courtesy name Xuejiu and nicknamed the Star of Wisdom, is the Liangshan strategist in Water Margin. He is from Dongxi village in Yuncheng county, Jizhou.
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Jinhuan Sanjie (died 225) is a fictional officer of Meng Huo in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, from the five southern streams. He was killed by Zhao Yun during the southern campaign.
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Marshal Heavenly Mugwort is a Taoist protective deity and one of the Four Sages of the North. The cited sources do not give a personal name distinct from this title.
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Mrs. Liu is a maid in the inner kitchen of the Rong mansion in Dream of the Red Chamber, and the mother of Liu Wu'er. She and her daughter were suspected when the rose dew disappeared, then she returned to the kitchen after they were cleared.