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The word 猪八戒 is formed by combining 猪 (pig), 八 (eight), and 戒 (precepts), directly naming a character from "Journey to the West" who is a pig-like being adhering to the eight Buddhist precepts, resulting in a literal meaning of "pig eight-precepts".

Word Definition - 猪八戒

zhū bā jiè Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake; Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation

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