Boy god of Chinese myth who rides wind-fire wheels. In 封神演义 he gives his flesh and bones back to his parents and is reborn from a lotus. Animated films about him in 2019 and 2025 broke Chinese box-office records.
《 Nézhā zhī mótóng jiàngshì 》 piàofáng chuàng le jìlù.
Ne Zha: The Demon Child Is Born broke box office records.
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His name began as a clipped Buddhist transcription of the Sanskrit Nalakuvara, son of the wealth god Kubera; the mouth radical on its first character came later. The 2019 film made 我命由我不由天, 'my fate is mine to decide, not heaven's', a popular motto.
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Pronounced Nézhā, not Nǎzhā despite the character 哪 most commonly reading nǎ/nà in modern Mandarin.
