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There are 12 total results for your Growing Old search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

偕老

see styles
xié lǎo
    xie2 lao3
hsieh lao
 kairou / kairo
    かいろう

More info & calligraphy:

Growing Old Together
to grow old together
growing old together

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    ku3
k`u
    ku
 ku
    く
bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
(1) pain; anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship; (2) {Buddh} (See 八苦) duhkha (suffering)
duḥkha, 豆佉 bitterness; unhappiness, suffering, pain, distress, misery; difficulty. There are lists of two, three, four, five, eight, and ten categories; the two are internal, i. e. physical and mental, and external, i. e. attacks from without. The four are birth, growing old, illness, and death. The eight are these four along with the pain of parting from the loved, of meeting with the hated, of failure in one's aims, and that caused by the five skandhas; cf. 四諦.

老大

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lǎo dà
    lao3 da4
lao ta
 roudai / rodai
    ろうだい
old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang
(noun or adjectival noun) (obsolete) growing old; old person

老来

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 rourai / rorai
    ろうらい
(adv,n) since growing old

蓑亀

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 minogame
    みのがめ
old turtle with seaweed growing on its back

長生


长生

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cháng shēng
    chang2 sheng1
ch`ang sheng
    chang sheng
 chousei / chose
    ちょうせい
long life
(n,vs,vi) longevity; (given name) Yoshio
Long or eternal life (in Paradise), 長生不死, 長生不老 long life without death, or growing old, immortality.

共白髪

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 tomoshiraga
    ともしらが
growing old together (a couple)

手離れ

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 tebanare
    てばなれ
(n,vs,vi) (1) growing old enough to not need constant looking after by one's parents; (n,vs,vi) (2) finishing a job

相老い

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 aioi
    あいおい
(See 相生い) growing old together (as a married couple)

オヤジ化

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 oyajika
    オヤジか
(expression) (slang) growing old

涅槃八味

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niè pán bā wèi
    nie4 pan2 ba1 wei4
nieh p`an pa wei
    nieh pan pa wei
 nehan no hachimi
The eight rasa, i.e. flavours, or characteristics of nirvāṇa-permanence, peace, no growing old, no death, purity, transcendence, unperturbedness, joy.

Variations:
共白髪
友白髪

see styles
 tomoshiraga
    ともしらが
(1) growing old together (as a couple); (2) white hemp thread (as a betrothal gift, representing the hair of an old couple)

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

This page contains 12 results for "Growing Old" 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.
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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).



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