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Etymology 1 n. A chimaera-like figure common in Chinese and Persian art. Etymology 2
n. (context computing dated English) A type of emoticon such as <@_@>, which represents an unrotated expression, unlike a smiley.
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A Bixie (, Wade–Giles: Pi-hsieh; Japanese: 辟邪, へきじゃ, Hekija) is a type of lion-like mythological Chinese creature, or chimera. It is considered as an exorcising animal (辟邪 literally means "Avoid Evil") and is usually hornless. See also Pixiu.
The Bixie can have a pair of wings, which makes it rather similar to the Tianlu (Chinese: 天禄, Japanese: 天禄, てんろく, Tenroku) in following early Chinese sculptural traditions of winged celestial beasts.
The Bixie may have been an adoption from Mesopotamian art, through Persia and Bactria, as a consequence of extensive trade relations initiated by Emperor Han Wudi during the Han period.
Some western scholars of Chinese art use the word "chimera" generically to refer to the bixie, qilin, and tianlu.
lion shaped Bixie Western Jin period 265 317CE.jpg| Celadon from the Western Jin period (265-317) in the Shanghai Museum Bixie. Eastern Han 25-220 CE. Luoyang.jpg|Stone statue from Luoyang during the Eastern Han period (25-220)
Usage examples of "bixie".
Rootabaga Stories and More Rootabaga Stories are best suited as read-aloud books for very young readers, who will probably have more patience for characters with names like Dippy the Wisp, Rags Habakuk, Shush Shush, Snoo Foo, Bixie Bimber, and Wingtip the Spick than their older siblings will.
The private rhythm of our need, a small and personal and totally shared thing, was that special thing in the world and in time which changed the Rockos and Evas, the Jerrys and Wallys and Bruceys and Carls, the Bixies and Beckys to scare-masks fashioned of cardboard and spit, empty things which hang on strings from an empty tree, turning in the parching wind that blows across the empty heart.