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Peng () or Dapeng (大鵬) is a giant bird that transforms from a Kun () giant fish in Chinese mythology. In comparative mythology of giant creatures, Peng is likened to the Roc or Garuda and Kun to the Leviathan.〔Mair, Victor (1994), "Introduction and Notes for a Complete Translation of the ''Chuang Tzu''", ''Sino-Platonic Papers'' 48.〕 ==Names== The Chinese logograms for ''peng'' and ''kun'' exemplify common radical-phonetic characters. ''Peng'' (鵬) combines the "bird radical" (鳥) with a ''peng'' (朋 "friend") phonetic, and ''kun'' combines the "fish radical" (魚) with a ''kun'' (昆 "progeny; insect") phonetic. Both the mythic Chinese ''Peng'' and ''Kun'' names involve word play. ''Peng'' (鵬) was anciently a variant Chinese character for ''feng'' (鳳) in ''fenghuang'' (鳳凰 "Chinese phoenix") (ca. 100 CE ''Shuowen Jiezi''); ''Kun'' 鲲 originally meant "fish roe; fry; spawn" (ca. 200 BCE ''Erya''). Synonyms of Peng include Dapeng (大鵬, with "big") and Dapengniao (大鵬鳥, with "bird"), both used to translate foreign "Roc" and "Garuda". Dapeng also refers to place names in Shenzhen and Guangdong. After recent fossil discoveries in northeast China, Chinese paleontologists used Peng to name the enantiornithine bird ''Pengornis'' and the wukongopterid pterosaur ''Kunpengopterus''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peng (mythology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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