page_title: Fenghuang
hierarchical_section_title: Fenghuang
context_page_description: Mythological birds that are found in Sinospheric mythology that reign over all other birds are usually referred to as 鳳凰. The males were originally called feng and the females huang but such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and they are blurred into a single feminine entity so that the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon, which is traditionally deemed male.
  The fenghuang is also called the "August Rooster" since it sometimes takes the place of the Rooster in the Chinese zodiac. In the Western world, it is commonly called the Chinese phoenix or simply Phoenix, although mythological similarities with the Western phoenix are superficial.
context_section_description: Mythological birds that are found in Sinospheric mythology that reign over all other birds are usually referred to as 鳳凰 (Chinese: Fenghuang; Vietnamese: Phượng hoàng or Phụng hoàng; Japanese: Hō-ō or Hou-ou; Korean: Bonghwang). The males were originally called feng and the females huang but such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and they are blurred into a single feminine entity so that the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon, which is traditionally deemed male.
  The fenghuang is also called the "August Rooster" (鹍鸡; 鶤雞 or 鵾雞; yùnjī or kūnjī; yün⁴-chi¹ or k'un¹-chi¹) since it sometimes takes the place of the Rooster in the Chinese zodiac. In the Western world, it is commonly called the Chinese phoenix or simply Phoenix, although mythological similarities with the Western phoenix are superficial.
caption: Fenghuang sculpture, Nanning city, Guangxi, China
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