“My second disciple's surname is Zhu, his religious name Wuneng, and your servant also calls him Zhu Bajie.”

⚠ The same three-part form as before, and the joke is in the surname. 豬 is the ordinary word for a pig. The Tang monk reports it to his emperor with a straight face, as a surname, in a formal audience. 悟能, Awakened to Ability, against Monkey's 悟空, Awakened to Emptiness. 八戒 is the Eight Prohibitions — the eight rules a lay Buddhist takes for a fast day, and a name given to a character who has broken most of them.

“By origin he is a native of the Cloud Ladder Cave on Blessed Mound Mountain.”

Shorter than Monkey's address by a continent and a country, which is roughly the proportion the novel keeps between the two of them everywhere else.

“Because he was making mischief at Gao Village in U-Tsang, the Bodhisattva likewise urged him to good, and it was thanks to Monkey that he was taken in.”

⚠ 烏斯藏 is U-Tsang, the old Chinese name for central Tibet. Its last character is read zàng — the same one as in the Tang monk's own title, and the same one that still stands in the modern Chinese name for Tibet. 作怪 — making mischief, playing the monster. He had married into the Gao family and eaten his way through their stores. 虧行者收之 — thanks to Monkey, he was taken in. Twice in two passages the Tang monk gives Monkey the credit.

“All along the road he was strong at carrying the load, and useful at fording water.”

⚠ Ten characters, and they are Pigsy's whole testimonial. Strong with the luggage, handy in a river. 挑擔 — to shoulder a pole-load. The word occurs at both ends of this chapter: it is what Monkey said his master could not do, and it is the one thing his master can find to praise Pigsy for. After ninety chapters of complaints, appetite, betrayals, bravery and the funniest lines in the book, the summary a buddha gives his emperor is that the pig carried things.