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monster mask pattern
Taotie pattern on the bronze wares in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties is one of the most attractive topic in Chinese bronze-ware time.
The questions of taotie pattern's prototype and implied meaning keep puzzling the academic field because of the contradiction between its 'name' and 'fact'.

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Open the tool →饕餮纹 (tāo tiè wén) means “Taotie pattern, monster mask pattern”.
饕餮纹 is pronounced tāo tiè wén in Mandarin Chinese.
“Taotie pattern” is 饕餮纹 (tāo tiè wén) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 饕餮纹, each with pinyin and an English translation.