There are 12 total results for your Light in Darkness search.
| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
六気 see styles |
rokki; rikki; rikuki ろっき; りっき; りくき |
(1) yin, yang, wind, rain, darkness, light; (2) cold, heat, dryness, dampness, wind, fire; (3) six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate) |
四蛇 see styles |
sì shé si4 she2 ssu she shida |
idem 四毒蛇. The Fanyimingyi under this heading gives the parable of a man who fled from the two bewildering forms of life and death, and climbed down a rope (of life) 命根, into the well of impermanence 無常, where two mice, night and day, gnawed the rattan rope; on the four sides four snakes 四蛇 sought to poison him, i. e. the 四大 or four elements of his physical nature); below were three dragons 三毒龍 breathing fire and trying to seize him. On looking up he saw that two 象 elephants (darkness and light) had come to the mouth of the well; he was in despair, when a bee flew by and dropped some honey (the five desires 五欲) into his mouth, which he ate and entirely forgot his peril. |
幽冥 see styles |
yōu míng you1 ming2 yu ming yū mei ゆうめい |
dark; hell; netherworld; hades semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light darkness |
幽明 see styles |
yōu míng you1 ming2 yu ming yuumei / yume ゆうめい |
the hidden and the visible; that which can be seen and that which cannot; darkness and light; night and day; wisdom and ignorance; evil and good; the living and the dead; men and ghosts semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light; (given name) Yūmei darkness and light |
明冥 see styles |
míng míng ming2 ming2 ming ming myōmyō |
The (powers of) light and darkness, the devas and Yama, gods and demons, also the visible and invisible. |
明暗 see styles |
mín gàn min2 gan4 min kan meian / mean めいあん |
light and darkness; light and shade; (surname) Meian light and darkness |
明闇 see styles |
mín gàn min2 gan4 min kan myōan |
light and darkness |
暗中明 see styles |
àn zhōng míng an4 zhong1 ming2 an chung ming anchūmmei |
light in the darkness |
暗中有明 see styles |
àn zhōng yǒu míng an4 zhong1 you3 ming2 an chung yu ming anchū umei |
light in the darkness |
薄暗がり see styles |
usukuragari うすくらがり |
semi-darkness; dim light; poor light; dusk; twilight |
明け放れる see styles |
akehanareru あけはなれる |
(Ichidan verb) to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way) |
闇夜の灯火 see styles |
yamiyonotomoshibi やみよのともしび |
(exp,n) light in the darkness; guiding beacon of light; godsend |
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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
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