Wangliang
| Wangliang | |||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 魍魎 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 魍魉 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 망량 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 魍魎 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | もうりょう | ||||||||||||||||
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In Chinese folklore, a wangliang (Chinese: 魍魎; pinyin: wǎngliǎng or Chinese: 罔兩) is a type of malevolent spirit. Interpretations of the wangliang include a wilderness spirit, similar to the kui, a water spirit akin to the Chinese dragon, a fever demon like the yu (魊; "a poisonous three-legged turtle"), a graveyard ghost also called wangxiang (罔象) or fangliang (方良), and a man-eating demon described as resembling a 3-year-old child with brown skin, red eyes, long ears, and beautiful hair.