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| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
禪 禅 see styles |
shàn shan4 shan yuzuri ゆずり |
More info & calligraphy: Zen / Chan / Meditation(out-dated kanji) (1) (Buddhist term) dhyana (profound meditation); (2) (abbreviation) Zen (Buddhism); (surname) Yuzuri To level a place for an altar, to sacrifice to the hills and fountains; to abdicate. Adopted by Buddhists for dhyāna, 禪 or 禪那, i.e. meditation, abstraction, trance. dhyāna is 'meditation, thought, reflection, especially profound and abstract religious contemplation'. M.W. It was intp. as 'getting rid of evil', etc., later as 靜慮 quiet meditation. It is a form of 定, but that word is more closely allied with samādhi, cf. 禪定. The term also connotes Buddhism and Buddhist things in general, but has special application to the 禪宗 q.v. It is one of the six pāramitās, cf. 波. There are numerous methods and subjects of meditation. The eighteen brahmalokas are divided into four dhyāna regions 'corresponding to certain frames of mind where individuals might be reborn in strict accordance with their spiritual state'. The first three are the first dhyāna, the second three the second dhyāna, the third three the third dhyāna, and the remaining nine the fourth dhyāna. See Eitel. According to Childers' Pali Dictionary, 'The four jhānas are four stages of mystic meditation, whereby the believer's mind is purged from all earthly emotions, and detached as it were from his body, which remains plunged in a profound trance.' Seated cross-legged, the practiser 'concentrates his mind upon a single thought. Gradually his soul becomes filled with a supernatural ecstasy and serenity', his mind still reasoning: this is the first jhāna. Concentrating his mind on the same subject, he frees it from reasoning, the ecstasy and serenity remaining, which is the second jhāna. Then he divests himself of ecstasy, reaching the third stage of serenity. Lastly, in the fourth stage the mind becomes indifferent to all emotions, being exalted above them and purified. There are differences in the Mahāyāna methods, but similarity of aim. |
櫓 橹 see styles |
lǔ lu3 lu yagura やぐら |
scull (single oar worked from side to side over the stern of a boat) (free word) Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock); (1) turret; watchtower; (2) high wooden stage; scaffolding; (3) wooden frame (of a kotatsu); (4) (archaism) weapons storehouse; (surname) Yagura |
一言 see styles |
yī yán yi1 yan2 i yen hitokoto ひとこと |
one sentence; brief remark (noun/participle) single word; a few words; brief comment; (place-name, surname) Hitokoto one word |
單字 单字 see styles |
dān zì dan1 zi4 tan tzu |
single Chinese character; word (in a foreign language) |
揺れ see styles |
yure ゆれ |
(1) shaking; shake; jolt; jolting; vibration; tremor; flickering; (2) unsettledness; instability; vacillating; wavering; (3) {ling} existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word |
連寫 连写 see styles |
lián xiě lian2 xie3 lien hsieh |
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper; (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces) |
連書 连书 see styles |
lián shū lian2 shu1 lien shu |
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper; (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces) |
達磨 达磨 see styles |
dá mó da2 mo2 ta mo daruma(p); daruma だるま(P); ダルマ |
(1) (kana only) daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted; (2) (kana only) Bodhidharma; (3) prostitute; (personal name) Daruma dharma; also 達摩; 達麼; 達而麻耶; 曇摩; 馱摩 tr. by 法. dharma is from dhara, holding, bearing, possessing, etc.; and means 'that which is to be held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice'; 'anything right.' M.W. It may be variously intp. as (1) characteristic, attribute, predicate; (2) the bearer, the transcendent substratum of single elements of conscious life; (3) element, i.e. a part of conscious life; (4) nirvāṇa, i.e. the Dharma par excellence, the object of Buddhist teaching; (5) the absolute, the real; (6) the teaching or religion of Buddha; (7) thing, object, appearance. Also, Damo, or Bodhidharma, the twenty-eighth Indian and first Chinese patriarch, who arrived in China A.D. 520, the reputed founder of the Chan or Intuitional School in China. He is described as son of a king in southern India; originally called Bodhitara. He arrived at Guangdong, bringing it is said the sacred begging-bowl, and settled in Luoyang, where he engaged in silent meditation for nine years, whence he received the title of wall-gazing Brahman 壁觀婆羅門, though he was a kṣatriya. His doctrine and practice were those of the 'inner light', independent of the written word, but to 慧可 Huike, his successor, he commended the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra as nearest to his views. There are many names with Dharma as initial: Dharmapāla, Dharmagupta, Dharmayaśas, Dharmaruci, Dharmarakṣa, Dharmatrāta, Dharmavardhana, etc. |
ひと言 see styles |
hitokoto ひとこと |
(noun/participle) single word; a few words; brief comment |
ぽつり see styles |
potsuri ぽつり |
(adv-to,adv) (1) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) isolated; standing alone; (2) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) falling in drops (e.g. rain); (3) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) saying a single word; muttering just a few words |
ぽつん see styles |
potsun ぽつん |
(adv-to,adv) (1) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) isolated; standing alone; (2) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) falling in drops (e.g. rain); (3) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) saying a single word; muttering just a few words |
一字禪 一字禅 see styles |
yī zì chán yi1 zi4 chan2 i tzu ch`an i tzu chan ichiji zen |
A cryptic single-word reply to a question, requiring meditation for its apprehension; it is a Chan or Zen method. |
單純詞 单纯词 see styles |
dān chún cí dan1 chun2 ci2 tan ch`un tz`u tan chun tzu |
(linguistics) single-morpheme word; simple word |
ぽっつり see styles |
pottsuri ぽっつり |
(adv-to,adv) (1) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) isolated; standing alone; (2) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) falling in drops (e.g. rain); (3) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) saying a single word; muttering just a few words |
一字一句 see styles |
ichijiikku / ichijikku いちじいっく |
word for word; verbatim; a single word and a single phrase |
一字不提 see styles |
yī zì bù tí yi1 zi4 bu4 ti2 i tzu pu t`i i tzu pu ti |
to not mention a single word (about something) (idiom) |
一字不說 一字不说 see styles |
yī zì bù shuō yi1 zi4 bu4 shuo1 i tzu pu shuo ichiji fu setsu |
not saying a single word |
一字半句 see styles |
ichijihanku いちじはんく |
a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable |
一字文殊 see styles |
yī zì wén shū yi1 zi4 wen2 shu1 i tzu wen shu Ichiji Monju |
The "Single-word Mañjuśrī', the magic word is 齒 M063830; or 體哩呬 淫; or 叱洛呬燄, and is used to avoid difficult parturition and to heal arrow-wounds. The image used is of a youthful smiling Mañjuśrī, wearing the felicitous pearl, with one tress on his head, hence also called 一髻文殊. |
一字褒貶 一字褒贬 see styles |
yī zì bāo biǎn yi1 zi4 bao1 bian3 i tzu pao pien |
lit. dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom); fig. concise and powerful style |
一竅不通 一窍不通 see styles |
yī qiào bù tōng yi1 qiao4 bu4 tong1 i ch`iao pu t`ung i chiao pu tung |
lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom); it's all Greek to me |
一言一句 see styles |
ichigonikku いちごんいっく |
(yoji) every single word and phrase; word by word |
一言半句 see styles |
ichigenhanku; ichigonhanku いちげんはんく; いちごんはんく |
(yoji) a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable |
一言隻句 see styles |
ichigonsekiku; ichigonsekku いちごんせきく; いちごんせっく |
every single word and phrase; each and every word |
一語一句 see styles |
ichigoikku いちごいっく |
(yoji) every single word and phrase; each and every word |
不說一字 不说一字 see styles |
bù shuō yī zì bu4 shuo1 yi1 zi4 pu shuo i tzu fusetsu ichiji |
does not speak a single word |
印紙同時 印纸同时 see styles |
yìn zhǐ tóng shí yin4 zhi3 tong2 shi2 yin chih t`ung shih yin chih tung shih inshi dōji |
At one and the same time, like printing (which is synchronous, not like writing which is word by word). |
言々句々 see styles |
gengenkuku げんげんくく |
(yoji) every single word and phrase; each and every word |
言言句句 see styles |
gengenkuku げんげんくく |
(yoji) every single word and phrase; each and every word |
隻字不提 只字不提 see styles |
zhī zì bù tí zhi1 zi4 bu4 ti2 chih tzu pu t`i chih tzu pu ti |
(idiom) to say not a single word about it |
未曾說一字 未曾说一字 see styles |
wèi céng shuō yī zì wei4 ceng2 shuo1 yi1 zi4 wei ts`eng shuo i tzu wei tseng shuo i tzu misō setsu ichiji |
[the Buddha] never explained a single word |
うんともすんとも see styles |
untomosuntomo うんともすんとも |
(exp,adv) without (uttering) a single word; without (giving) even the slightest response |
Variations: |
hitokoto(p); ichigen(一言); ichigon(一言) ひとこと(P); いちげん(一言); いちごん(一言) |
(n,vs,vt,vi) single word; a few words; brief comment |
Variations: |
gengenkuku げんげんくく |
every single word and phrase; each and every word |
Variations: |
untomosuntomo; untomosuntomo うんともすんとも; ウンともスンとも |
(exp,adv) without (uttering) a single word; without (giving) even the slightest response |
Variations: |
potsuri; potsun; potsuri; potsun; pottsuri; pottsuri ポツリ; ポツン; ぽつり; ぽつん; ぽっつり; ポッツリ |
(adv-to,adv) (1) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) (ぽっつり is emphatic) isolated; standing alone; (adv-to,adv) (2) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) falling in drops (e.g. rain); (adv-to,adv) (3) (onomatopoeic or mimetic word) saying a single word; muttering just a few words |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 36 results for "Single Word" 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
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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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