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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

互選

see styles
 gosen
    ごせん
(noun, transitive verb) election by mutual vote; election from within a committee (party, etc.); internal vote

内乞

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nèi qǐ
    nei4 qi3
nei ch`i
    nei chi
The bhikṣu monk who seeks control from within himself, i. e. by mental processes, as compared with the 外乞 the one who aims at control by physical discipline. e. g. fasting, etc.

内発

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 naihatsu
    ないはつ
(n,vs,vi) burst of energy from within

從中


从中

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cóng zhōng
    cong2 zhong1
ts`ung chung
    tsung chung
from within; therefrom

内発的

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 naihatsuteki
    ないはつてき
(adjectival noun) (ant: 外発的) spontaneous; arising from within; intrinsic; voluntary

憂陀那


忧陀那

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yōu tuó nà
    you1 tuo2 na4
yu t`o na
    yu to na
 udana
udāna, cf. 優, 烏, etc. Breathing upwards from the throat into the head; guttural sounds; the navel, umbilical; the middle; volunteered remarks or addresses by the Buddha, sermons that came from within him without external request; voluntarily to testify.

自覺悟心


自觉悟心

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zì jué wù xīn
    zi4 jue2 wu4 xin1
tzu chüeh wu hsin
 jikaku goshin
A mind independent of externals, pure thought, capable of enlightenment from within.

如人飲水,冷暖自知


如人饮水,冷暖自知

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rú rén yǐn shuǐ , lěng nuǎn zì zhī
    ru2 ren2 yin3 shui3 , leng3 nuan3 zi4 zhi1
ju jen yin shui , leng nuan tzu chih
the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within; to know best by personal experience

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 8 results for "From Within" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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