Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens
peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)
canary (esp. the island canary, Serinus canaria)
leaping for joy; exultation
Mahamayuri (deity usu. depicted riding a peacock)
white peafowl (white variety of Indian peafowl)
only a hero can understand a hero; (lit.) swallows and sparrows can't understand the aspirations of phoenixes and swans
marigold (esp. the French marigold, Tagetes patula); plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria); northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)
Pavo (constellation); the Peacock
(a house) looking deserted with few visitors; (lit.) sparrow net in front of the gate
tree sparrow (Passer montanus)
freckle; ephelis; ephelides
how can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); only a hero can understand a hero
to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; (lit.) to set a sparrow net in front of the gate
southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)
peacock butterfly (Inachis io); European peacock
green peafowl (Pavo muticus)
northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)
Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus); common peafowl; blue peafowl
Adiantum edgeworthii (species of maidenhair fern)
Japanese waxwing (species of passerine bird, Bombycilla japonica)