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There are 16 total results for your genesis search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

創世記


创世记

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chuàng shì jì
    chuang4 shi4 ji4
ch`uang shih chi
    chuang shih chi
 souseiki / soseki
    そうせいき

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Genesis
Genesis (first book of the Bible)
Genesis (book of the Bible)

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    qi3
ch`i
    chi
 hajime
    はじめ
to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
(irregular okurigana usage) source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis; (female given name) Hajime
To rise, raise, start, begin; uprising; tr. utpada.

原始

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yuán shǐ
    yuan2 shi3
yüan shih
 genshi
    げんし
first; original; primitive; original (document etc)
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) origin; beginning; genesis; (adj-no,n) (2) primeval; primordial; primitive; (given name) Hajime

発端

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 hottan
    ほったん
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning

緣起


缘起

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yuán qǐ
    yuan2 qi3
yüan ch`i
    yüan chi
 engi
to originate; origin; genesis; account of the origins of an endeavor
Arising from conditional causation; everything arises from conditions, and not being spontaneous and self-contained has no separate and independent nature; cf. 緣生. It is a fundamental doctrine of the Huayan school, which defines four principal uses of the term: (1) 業感緣起 that of the Hīnayāna, i.e. under the influence of karma the conditions of reincarnation arise; (2) 賴耶緣起 that of the primitive Mahāyāna school, i.e. that all things arise from the ālaya, or 藏 fundamental store; (3) 如來藏緣起 that of the advancing Mahāyāna, that all things arise from the tathāgatagarbha, or bhūtatathatā; (4) 法界緣起 that of complete Mahāyāna, in which one is all and all are one, each being a universal cause.

巴別塔


巴别塔

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bā bié tǎ
    ba1 bie2 ta3
pa pieh t`a
    pa pieh ta
Tower of Babel, in Genesis 11:5-foll.

波提乏

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bō tí fá
    bo1 ti2 fa2
po t`i fa
    po ti fa
Potiphar, the captain of the pharaoh's guard (in the account of Joseph in the Book of Genesis)

獣王記

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 juuouki / juoki
    じゅうおうき
(product) Altered Beast (1989 Sega Arcade game, ported to Mega Drive (Genesis)); (product name) Altered Beast (1989 Sega Arcade game, ported to Mega Drive (Genesis))

起こり

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 okori
    おこり
source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis

鉱床成因論

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 koushouseiinron / koshosenron
    こうしょうせいいんろん
metallogeny; ore genesis

メガドライブ

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 megadoraibu
    メガドライブ
(1) (product) (Sega) Mega Drive; (2) (product) MD (US equiv: Genesis); (product name) (Sega) Mega Drive; (product name) MD (US equiv: Genesis)

エヴァンゲリオン

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 eangerion
    エヴァンゲリオン
(company) Neon Genesis Evangelion (media franchise); (c) Neon Genesis Evangelion (media franchise)

新世紀エヴァンゲリオン

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 shinseikieangerion / shinsekieangerion
    しんせいきエヴァンゲリオン
(company) Neon Genesis Evangelion (media franchise); (c) Neon Genesis Evangelion (media franchise)

生めよ殖えよ地に満てよ

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 umeyofueyochinimiteyo
    うめよふえよちにみてよ
(expression) (proverb) (from Genesis 1:28) be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth

Variations:
起こり
起り
起(io)

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 okori
    おこり
source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis

Variations:
生めよ、殖えよ、地に満てよ
生めよ殖えよ地に満てよ

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 umeyofueyochinimiteyo
    うめよふえよちにみてよ
(expression) (proverb) (from Genesis 1:28) be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth

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

This page contains 16 results for "genesis" 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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