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- toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking)
- (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon
- (metonym) the moon
Trad. 蟾宮折桂
- lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)
- fig. to succeed in the imperial examination
