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尊厳死 see styles |
songenshi そんげんし |
More info & calligraphy: Death with Dignity |
生老病死 see styles |
shēng lǎo bìng sǐ sheng1 lao3 bing4 si3 sheng lao ping ssu shouroubyoushi / shorobyoshi しょうろうびょうし |
More info & calligraphy: Birth Old-Age Sickness Death(yoji) {Buddh} the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) Birth, age, sickness, death, the 四苦 four afflictions that are the lot of every man. The five are the above four and 苦 misery, or suffering. |
岐 see styles |
qí qi2 ch`i chi funato ふなと |
variant of 歧[qi2] (1) (kana only) the public (esp. much-discussed, much-heard); the street (e.g. "word on the street"); (2) (kana only) street; district; quarters; (3) (kana only) location (of a battle, etc.); scene (e.g. of carnage); (4) (kana only) divide (e.g. between life and death); (5) fork (in a road); crossroads; (surname) Funato |
巷 see styles |
xiàng xiang4 hsiang tsuji つじ |
lane; alley (1) (kana only) the public (esp. much-discussed, much-heard); the street (e.g. "word on the street"); (2) (kana only) street; district; quarters; (3) (kana only) location (of a battle, etc.); scene (e.g. of carnage); (4) (kana only) divide (e.g. between life and death); (5) fork (in a road); crossroads; (personal name) Tsuji |
相 see styles |
xiàng xiang4 hsiang sou / so そう |
appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc) (1) aspect; appearance; look; (2) physiognomy (as an indication of one's fortune); (3) {gramm} aspect; (4) {physics;chem} phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous); (given name) Tasuku lakṣana 攞乞尖拏. Also, nimitta. A 'distinctive mark, sign', 'indication, characteristic', 'designation'. M. W. External appearance; the appearance of things; form; a phenomenon 有爲法 in the sense of appearance; mutual; to regard. The four forms taken by every phenomenon are 生住異滅 rise, stay, change, cease, i. e. birth, life, old age, death. The Huayan school has a sixfold division of form, namely, whole and parts, together and separate, integrate and disintegrate. A Buddha or Cakravartī is recognized by his thirty-two lakṣana , i. e. his thirty-two characteristic physiological marks. |
竟 see styles |
jìng jing4 ching kiwamu きわむ |
unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) end; final; (2) end of life; death; (adverb) (3) never; not at all; (given name) Kiwamu finish |
終 终 see styles |
zhōng zhong1 chung owari おわり |
end; finish (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) end; final; (2) end of life; death; (adverb) (3) never; not at all; (irregular okurigana usage) the end; (female given name) Owari End, termination, final, utmost, death, the whole; opposite of 始. |
衢 see styles |
qú qu2 ch`ü chü ku ちまた |
thoroughfare (1) (kana only) the public (esp. much-discussed, much-heard); the street (e.g. "word on the street"); (2) (kana only) street; district; quarters; (3) (kana only) location (of a battle, etc.); scene (e.g. of carnage); (4) (kana only) divide (e.g. between life and death); (5) fork (in a road); crossroads A thoroughfare, a way, cf. 瞿 18. |
遂 see styles |
suì sui4 sui toguru とぐる |
to satisfy; to succeed; then; thereupon; finally; unexpectedly; to proceed; to reach (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) end; final; (2) end of life; death; (adverb) (3) never; not at all; (personal name) Toguru to achieve |
下品 see styles |
xià pǐn xia4 pin3 hsia p`in hsia pin gehin げひん |
(noun or adjectival noun) vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude; (place-name) Shimoshina The three lowest of the nine classes born in the Amitābha Pure Land, v. 無量壽經. These three lowest grades are (1) 下品上生 The highest of the three lowest classes who enter the Pure Land of Amitābha, i.e. those who have committed all sins except dishonouring the sūtras. If at the end of life the sinner clasps hands and says "Namo Amitābha", such a one will be born in His precious lake. (2) 下品中生 The middle class consists of those who have broken all the commandments, even stolen from monks and abused the law. If at death such a one hears of the great power of Amitābha, and assents with but a thought, he will be received into paradise. (3) 下品下生 The lowest class, because of their sins, should have fallen into the lowest gati, but by invoking the name of Amitābha, they can escape countless ages of reincarnation and suffering and on dying will behold a lotus flower like the sun, and, by the response of a single thought, will enter the Pure Land of Amitābha. |
半死 see styles |
bàn sǐ ban4 si3 pan ssu hanshi はんし |
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits; (beaten) to within an inch of one's life; (knock) the daylights out of sb half-dead |
四有 see styles |
sì yǒu si4 you3 ssu yu shiu しう |
{Buddh} the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo four states of life |
四相 see styles |
sì xiàng si4 xiang4 ssu hsiang shisou / shiso しそう |
(1) {Buddh} four essential elements of existence (birth, ageing, illness and death); (can act as adjective) (2) {math} four-phase; quadri-phase The four avasthā, or states of all phenomena, i. e. 生住異滅 birth, being, change (i. e. decay), and death; also 四有爲相. There are several groups, e. g. 果報四相 birth, age, disease, death. Also 藏識四相 of the Awakening of Faith referring to the initiation, continuation, change, and cessation of the ālaya-vijñāna. Also 我人四相 The ideas: (1) that there is an ego; (2) that man is different from other organisms; (3) that all the living are produced by the skandhas; (4) that life is limited to the organism. Also 智境四相 dealing differently with the four last headings 我; 人; 衆生; and 壽相. |
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. |
圓融 圆融 see styles |
yuán róng yuan2 rong2 yüan jung enyū |
accommodating; (Buddhism) completely integrated Complete combination; the absolute in the relative and vice versa; the identity of apparent contraries; perfect harmony among all differences, as in water and waves, passion and enlightenment, transmigration and nirvāṇa, or life and death, etc.; all are of the same fundamental nature, all are bhūtatathatā, and bhūtatathatā is all; waves are one with waves, and water is one with water, and water and wave are one. |
垂危 see styles |
chuí wēi chui2 wei1 ch`ui wei chui wei |
close to death; life-threatening (illness) |
大命 see styles |
dà mìng da4 ming4 ta ming taimei / taime たいめい |
imperial command; royal command The great order, command, destiny, or fate, i.e. life-and-death, mortality, reincarnation. |
存亡 see styles |
cún wáng cun2 wang2 ts`un wang tsun wang sonbou / sonbo そんぼう |
to live or die; to exist or perish life or death; existence; destiny |
存否 see styles |
zonpi; sonpi ぞんぴ; そんぴ |
(whether) existent or non-existent; life or death |
往生 see styles |
wǎng shēng wang3 sheng1 wang sheng oujou / ojo おうじょう |
to be reborn; to live in paradise (Buddhism); to die; (after) one's death (n,vs,vi) (1) {Buddh} passing on to the next life; (n,vs,vi) (2) death; (n,vs,vi) (3) giving up a struggle; submission; (n,vs,vi) (4) being at one's wits' end; being flummoxed; (5) (rare) (See 圧状・2) coercion The future life, the life to which anyone is going; to go to be born in the Pure Land of Amitābha. (1) 往相囘向 To transfer one's merits to all beings that they may attain the Pure Land of Amitābha. (2) 還相囘向 Having been born in the Pure Land to return to mortality and by one's merits to bring mortals to the Pure Land. |
後世 后世 see styles |
hòu shì hou4 shi4 hou shih gose ごせ |
later generations {Buddh} the next world; afterlife; life after death The 1ife after this; later generations or ages. |
投身 see styles |
tóu shēn tou2 shen1 t`ou shen tou shen toushin / toshin とうしん |
to throw oneself into something (n,vs,vi) (See 投身自殺) throwing oneself to one's death; precipitating oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death To cast away, or surrender, one's body, or oneself. |
斷見 断见 see styles |
duàn jiàn duan4 jian4 tuan chien danken |
ucchedadarśana; the view that death ends life, in contrast with 常見 that body and soul are eternal—both views being heterodox; also world-extinction and the end of causation. |
末期 see styles |
mò qī mo4 qi1 mo ch`i mo chi matsugo まつご |
end (of a period); last part; final phase hour of death; one's last moments; end of one's life |
死命 see styles |
sǐ mìng si3 ming4 ssu ming shimei / shime しめい |
doom; death; desperately fate; life or death |
死活 see styles |
sǐ huó si3 huo2 ssu huo shikatsu しかつ |
life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me (noun - becomes adjective with の) life and death; life or death |
死生 see styles |
sǐ shēng si3 sheng1 ssu sheng shisei; shishou / shise; shisho しせい; ししょう |
life or death; critical (event) (See 生死・1) life and death Death and life, mortality, transmigration; v. 生死. |
死線 死线 see styles |
sǐ xiàn si3 xian4 ssu hsien shisen しせん |
deadline (loanword) (1) borderline between life and death; verge of death; (2) deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross) |
死闘 see styles |
shitou / shito しとう |
(n,vs,vi) life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death |
殊死 see styles |
shū sǐ shu1 si3 shu ssu |
to behead; capital punishment; desperate struggle; life-and-death |
活殺 see styles |
kassatsu かっさつ |
life or death |
涅槃 see styles |
niè pán nie4 pan2 nieh p`an nieh pan nehan ねはん |
nirvana (Buddhism) (1) {Buddh} nirvana; supreme enlightenment; (2) {Buddh} death; death of Buddha nirvāṇa, 'blown out, gone out, put out, extinguished'; 'liberated-from existence'; 'dead, deceased, defunct.' 'Liberation, eternal bliss'; '(with Buddhists and Jainas) absolute extinction or annihilation, complete extinction of individual existence.' M.W. Other forms are 涅槃那; 泥日; 泥洹; 泥畔 Originally translated 滅 to extinguish, extinction, put out (as a lamp or fire), it was also described as 解脫 release, 寂滅 tranquil extinction; 無爲 inaction, without effort, passiveness; 不生 no (re)birth; 安樂 calm joy; 滅度transmigration to 'extinction'. The meaning given to 'extinction' varies, e.g. individual extinction; cessation of rebirth; annihilation of passion; extinction of all misery and entry into bliss. While the meaning of individual extinction is not without advocates, the general acceptation is the extinction or end of all return to reincarnation with its concomitant suffering, and the entry into bliss. Nirvāṇa may be enjoyed in the present life as an attainable state, with entry into parinirvāṇa, or perfect bliss to follow. It may be (a) with a 'remainder', i.e. the cause but not all the effect (karma), of reincarnation having been destroyed; (b) without 'remainder', both cause and effect having been extinguished. The answer of the Buddha as to the continued personal existence of the Tathāgata in nirvāṇa is, in the Hīnayāna canon, relegated 'to the sphere of the indeterminates' (Keith), as one of the questions which are not essential to salvation. One argument is that flame when blown out does not perish but returns to the totality of Fire. The Nirvāṇa Sutra claims for nirvāṇa the ancient ideas of 常樂我淨 permanence, bliss, personality purity in the transcendental realm. Mahāyāna declares that Hīnayāna by denying personality in the transcendental realm denies the existence of the Buddha. In Mahāyāna final nirvāṇa is transcendental, and is also used as a term for the absolute. The place where the Buddha entered his earthly nirvāṇa is given as Kuśinagara, cf. 拘. |
潤生 润生 see styles |
rùn shēng run4 sheng1 jun sheng mitsuo みつお |
(male given name) Mitsuo The fertilization of the natural conditions which produce rebirth, especially those of the three kinds of attachment in the hour of death, love of body, of home, and of life. |
生死 see styles |
shēng sǐ sheng1 si3 sheng ssu seishi(p); shouji; shoushi / seshi(p); shoji; shoshi せいし(P); しょうじ; しょうし |
life or death (1) life and death; life or death; (2) (しょうじ, しょうし only) {Buddh} samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); (3) (しょうじ, しょうし only) death saṃsāra: birth and death: rebirth and redeath; life and death; 生死, 死生; 生生死死 ever-recurring saṃsāra or transmigrations; the round of mortality. There are two, three, four, seven, and twelve kinds of 生死; the two are 分斷生死 the various karmaic transmigrations, and 不思義變易生死 (or simply 變易生死) the inconceivable transformation life in the Pure Land. Among the twelve are final separation from mortality of the arhat, with 無餘 no remains of it causing return; one final death and no rebirth of the anāgāmin; the seven advancing rebirths of the srota-āpanna; down to the births-cum-deaths of hungry ghosts. |
生滅 生灭 see styles |
shēng miè sheng1 mie4 sheng mieh shoumetsu / shometsu しょうめつ |
life and death (n,vs,vi) birth and death utpādanirodha. Birth and death, production and annihilation; all life, all phenomena, have birth and death, beginning and end; the 三論 Mādhyamika school deny this in the 實 absolute, but recognize it in the 假 relative. |
絶命 see styles |
zetsumei / zetsume ぜつめい |
(n,vs,vi) end of life; death; breathing one's last |
臨終 临终 see styles |
lín zhōng lin2 zhong1 lin chung rinjuu / rinju りんじゅう |
approaching one's end; with one foot in the grave deathbed; dying hour; one's death Approach the end, dying. |
落命 see styles |
rakumei / rakume らくめい |
(n,vs,vi) losing one's life; death |
薤露 see styles |
kairo かいろ |
ephemeral nature of the human world; transience of life; dew on onion leaves (i.e. tears that mourn a death) |
長生 长生 see styles |
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. |
長逝 长逝 see styles |
cháng shì chang2 shi4 ch`ang shih chang shih chousei / chose ちょうせい |
to depart this life; to be no more (n,vs,vi) death; passing |
限り see styles |
kagiri かぎり |
(1) limit; limits; bounds; (2) degree; extent; scope; (n,n-suf) (3) the end; the last; (n,adv) (4) (after an adjective, verb, or noun) as long as ...; as far as ...; as much as ...; to the limits of ...; all of ...; (n,adv) (5) (after neg. verb) unless ...; (6) (usu. as 〜の限りではない) (not) included in ...; (not) part of ...; (7) (usu. adj+限り) being very much (in a certain state); extreme amount (of a feeling, etc.); (n-suf,n,adv) (8) ... only (e.g. "one time only", "today only"); (9) (archaism) end of one's life; final moments; death; (10) (archaism) funeral; burial |
三生死 see styles |
sān shēng sǐ san1 sheng1 si3 san sheng ssu san shōshi |
three [realms of] life and death |
二無常 二无常 see styles |
èr wú cháng er4 wu2 chang2 erh wu ch`ang erh wu chang ni mujō |
Two kinds of impermanence, immediate and delayed. 念念無常 things in motion, manifestly transient; 相續無常 things that have the semblance of continuity, but are also transient, as life ending in death, or a candle in extinction. |
半條命 半条命 see styles |
bàn tiáo mìng ban4 tiao2 ming4 pan t`iao ming pan tiao ming |
half a life; only half alive; barely alive; (scared, beaten etc) half to death |
命がけ see styles |
inochigake いのちがけ |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) risking one's life; (2) life and death; risky; desperate |
命懸け see styles |
inochigake いのちがけ |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) risking one's life; (2) life and death; risky; desperate |
命掛け see styles |
inochigake いのちがけ |
(out-dated kanji) (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) risking one's life; (2) life and death; risky; desperate |
死生観 see styles |
shiseikan / shisekan しせいかん |
one's opinion on (life and) death |
生と死 see styles |
seitoshi / setoshi せいとし |
(exp,n) life and death |
生命線 生命线 see styles |
shēng mìng xiàn sheng1 ming4 xian4 sheng ming hsien seimeisen / semesen せいめいせん |
lifeline (1) lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing; (2) life line (in palm reading) |
生死園 生死园 see styles |
shēng sǐ yuán sheng1 si3 yuan2 sheng ssu yüan shōji en |
The garden of life-and-death. This mortal world in which the unenlightened find their satisfaction. |
生死岸 see styles |
shēng sǐ àn sheng1 si3 an4 sheng ssu an shōji gan |
The shore of mortal life; as生死流 is its flow; 生死泥 its quagmire; 生死淵 its abyss; 生死野 its wilderness; 生死雲 its envelopment in cloud. |
生死観 see styles |
seishikan / seshikan せいしかん |
one's opinion on life and death; life-and-death issue (e.g. in religion) |
細四相 细四相 see styles |
xì sì xiàng xi4 si4 xiang4 hsi ssu hsiang saishi no sō |
The four states of 生住異滅 birth, abiding, change, extinction, e.g. birth, life, decay, death. |
般涅槃 see styles |
bān niè pán ban1 nie4 pan2 pan nieh p`an pan nieh pan hatsunehan はつねはん |
{Buddh} parinirvana; final release from the cycle of karma and rebirth (般涅槃那) parinirvāṇa; 'quite extinguished, quite brought to an end; the final extinction of the individual.' M. W. The death of the Buddha. Nirvana may be attained in this life, parinirvāṇa after it; for the meaning of 'extinction' v. 涅槃. It may also correspond to the suppression of all mental activity. It is also the second of the three grades of nirvana, parinirvāṇa, and mahānirvāṇa, which are later developments and have association with the ideas of Hīnayāna, Madhyamayāna, and Mahāyāna, or the small, middle, and great vehicles; also with the three grades of bodhi which these three vehicles represent; and the three classes of śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas. Other forms are:般利涅槃那; 波利涅槃那; 般尼洹. |
難度海 难度海 see styles |
nán dù hǎi nan2 du4 hai3 nan tu hai nando kai |
The ocean hard to cross, the sea of life and death, or mortality. |
不動生死 不动生死 see styles |
bù dòng shēng sǐ bu4 dong4 sheng1 si3 pu tung sheng ssu fudō shōshi |
Immortality, nirvana. |
九死一生 see styles |
jiǔ sǐ yī shēng jiu3 si3 yi1 sheng1 chiu ssu i sheng kyuushiisshou / kyushissho きゅうしいっしょう |
nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape; new lease of life (yoji) narrow escape from the jaw of death |
二種涅槃 二种涅槃 see styles |
èr zhǒng niè pán er4 zhong3 nie4 pan2 erh chung nieh p`an erh chung nieh pan nishu nehan |
Two nirvanas: (1) 有餘涅槃 also 有餘依 That with a remnant; the cause 因 has been annihilated, but the remnant of the effect 果 still remains, so that a saint may enter this nirvana during life, but have to continue to live in this mortal realm till the death of his body. (2) 無餘涅槃 or 無餘依 Remnantless nirvāṇa, without cause and effect, the connection with the chain of mortal life being ended, so that the saint enters upon perfect nirvāṇa on the death of the body; cf. 智度論 31. Another definition is that Hīnayāna has further transmigration, while Mahāyāna maintains final nirvana. "Nothing remnaining" is differently interpreted in different schools, by some literally, but in Mahāyāna generally, as meaning no further mortal suffering, i.e. final nirvāṇa. |
人的損失 see styles |
jintekisonshitsu じんてきそんしつ |
loss of life; human losses; death |
偕老同穴 see styles |
kairoudouketsu; kairoudouketsu / kairodoketsu; kairodoketsu かいろうどうけつ; カイロウドウケツ |
(1) (かいろうどうけつ only) (yoji) happy life partnership; living faithfully together till death; (2) (kana only) Venus's flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum) |
凡夫生死 see styles |
fán fū shēng sǐ fan2 fu1 sheng1 si3 fan fu sheng ssu bonbu shōshi |
life-and-death as it is experienced by unenlightened sentient beings |
十二因緣 十二因缘 see styles |
shí èr yīn yuán shi2 er4 yin1 yuan2 shih erh yin yüan jūni innen |
Dvādaśaṅga pratītyasamutpāda; the twelve nidānas; v. 尼 and 因; also 十二緣起; 因緣有支; 因緣率連; 因緣棘園; 因緣輪; 因緣重城; 因緣觀; 支佛觀. They are the twelve links in the chain of existence: (1) 無明avidyā, ignorance, or unenlightenment; (2) 行 saṃskāra, action, activity, conception, "dispositions," Keith; (3) 識 vijñāna, consciousness; (4) 名色 nāmarūpa, name and form; (5) 六入 ṣaḍāyatana, the six sense organs, i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind; (6) 觸 sparśa, contact, touch; (7) 受 vedanā, sensation, feeling; (8) 愛 tṛṣṇā, thirst, desire, craving; (9) 取 upādāna, laying hold of, grasping; (10) 有 bhava, being, existing; (11) 生 jāti, birth; (12) 老死 jarāmaraṇa, old age, death. The "classical formula" reads "By reason of ignorance dispositions; by reason of dispositions consciousness", etc. A further application of the twelve nidānas is made in regard to their causaton of rebirth: (1) ignorance, as inherited passion from the beginningless past ; (2) karma, good and evil, of past lives; (3) conception as a form of perception; (4) nāmarūpa, or body and mind evolving (in the womb); (5) the six organs on the verge of birth; (6) childhood whose intelligence is limited to sparśa, contact or touch; (7) receptivity or budding intelligence and discrimination from 6 or 7 years; (8) thirst, desire, or love, age of puberty; (9) the urge of sensuous existence; (10) forming the substance, bhava, of future karma; (11) the completed karma ready for rebirth; (12) old age and death. The two first are associated with the previous life, the other ten with the present. The theory is equally applicable to all realms of reincarnation. The twelve links are also represented in a chart, at the centre of which are the serpent (anger), boar (ignorance, or stupidity), and dove (lust) representing the fundamental sins. Each catches the other by the tail, typifying the train of sins producing the wheel of life. In another circle the twelve links are represented as follows: (1) ignorance, a blind woman; (2) action, a potter at work, or man gathering fruit; (3) consciousness, a restless monkey; (4) name and form, a boat; (5) sense organs, a house; (6) contact, a man and woman sitting together; (7) sensation, a man pierced by an arrow; (8) desire, a man drinking wine; (9) craving, a couple in union; (10) existence through childbirth; (11) birth, a man carrying a corpse; (12) disease, old age, death, an old woman leaning on a stick. v. 十二因緣論 Pratītya-samutpāda śāstra. |
千鈞一髮 千钧一发 see styles |
qiān jun yī fà qian1 jun1 yi1 fa4 ch`ien chün i fa chien chün i fa |
a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom); imminent peril; a matter of life or death |
危急存亡 see styles |
kikyuusonbou / kikyusonbo ききゅうそんぼう |
(yoji) life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened |
命を削る see styles |
inochiokezuru いのちをけずる |
(exp,v5r) to shorten one's life (through hardship, etc.); to hasten one's death |
四不可得 see styles |
sì bù kě dé si4 bu4 ke3 de2 ssu pu k`o te ssu pu ko te shi fuka toku |
The four unattainables, perpetual youth, no sickness, perennial life, no death. There is a work, the Catur-lābha-sūtra, tr. into Chinese under this title. |
国家存亡 see styles |
kokkasonbou / kokkasonbo こっかそんぼう |
the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis |
存亡攸關 存亡攸关 see styles |
cún wáng yōu guān cun2 wang2 you1 guan1 ts`un wang yu kuan tsun wang yu kuan |
a make-or-break matter; a matter of life and death |
性命攸關 性命攸关 see styles |
xìng mìng yōu guān xing4 ming4 you1 guan1 hsing ming yu kuan |
vitally important; a matter of life and death |
拼死拼活 see styles |
pīn sǐ pīn huó pin1 si3 pin1 huo2 p`in ssu p`in huo pin ssu pin huo |
one's utmost; (to fight or work) desperately hard; to put up a life or death struggle; at all costs |
有爲生死 有为生死 see styles |
yǒu wéi shēng sǐ you3 wei2 sheng1 si3 yu wei sheng ssu ui shōji |
The mortal saṃsāra life of births and deaths, contrasted with 無爲生死 effortless mortality, e. g. transformation such as that of the Bodhisattva. |
死を選ぶ see styles |
shioerabu しをえらぶ |
(exp,v5b) to commit suicide; to end one's life; to choose death |
死中求生 see styles |
sǐ zhōng qiú shēng si3 zhong1 qiu2 sheng1 ssu chung ch`iu sheng ssu chung chiu sheng |
to seek life in death (idiom); to fight for one's life |
死亡保険 see styles |
shibouhoken / shibohoken しぼうほけん |
life insurance; insurance payable at death |
死亡保障 see styles |
shibouhoshou / shibohosho しぼうほしょう |
death benefit (from life insurance) |
死去活來 死去活来 see styles |
sǐ qù huó lái si3 qu4 huo2 lai2 ssu ch`ü huo lai ssu chü huo lai |
to hover between life and death (idiom); to suffer terribly; within an inch of one's life |
死活不顧 死活不顾 see styles |
sǐ huó bù gù si3 huo2 bu4 gu4 ssu huo pu ku |
regardless of life or death (idiom) |
死活問題 see styles |
shikatsumondai しかつもんだい |
matter of life or death; life-and-death problem |
死而後已 死而后已 see styles |
sǐ ér hòu yǐ si3 er2 hou4 yi3 ssu erh hou i |
until death puts an end (idiom); one's whole life; unto one's dying day |
活殺自在 see styles |
kassatsujizai かっさつじざい |
(yoji) the power of life or death |
無常迅速 无常迅速 see styles |
wú cháng xùn sù wu2 chang2 xun4 su4 wu ch`ang hsün su wu chang hsün su mujoujinsoku / mujojinsoku むじょうじんそく |
(yoji) the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times impermanence is swift |
生き死に see styles |
ikishini いきしに |
life and-or death |
生榮死哀 生荣死哀 see styles |
shēng róng sǐ āi sheng1 rong2 si3 ai1 sheng jung ssu ai |
to be respected in life and lamented in death (idiom) |
生死の境 see styles |
seishinosakai / seshinosakai せいしのさかい |
between life and death |
生死一如 see styles |
seishiichinyo / seshichinyo せいしいちにょ |
(expression) life and death are the two faces of the same coin |
生死之際 生死之际 see styles |
shēng sǐ zhī jì sheng1 si3 zhi1 ji4 sheng ssu chih chi shōji no sai |
Between life and death. |
生死大海 see styles |
shēng sǐ dà hǎi sheng1 si3 da4 hai3 sheng ssu ta hai shōshi daikai |
The ocean of mortality, mortal life, 輪迴 saṃsāra, or transmigrations. |
生死存亡 see styles |
shēng sǐ cún wáng sheng1 si3 cun2 wang2 sheng ssu ts`un wang sheng ssu tsun wang |
matter of life and death |
生死攸關 生死攸关 see styles |
shēng sǐ yōu guān sheng1 si3 you1 guan1 sheng ssu yu kuan |
matter of life and death |
生死有命 see styles |
shēng sǐ yǒu mìng sheng1 si3 you3 ming4 sheng ssu yu ming |
life and death are ruled by fate (idiom) |
生死關頭 生死关头 see styles |
shēng sǐ guān tóu sheng1 si3 guan1 tou2 sheng ssu kuan t`ou sheng ssu kuan tou |
the critical moment; life and death crisis |
生殺与奪 see styles |
seisatsuyodatsu / sesatsuyodatsu せいさつよだつ |
(yoji) (having) life-and-death power (over) |
生殺大權 生杀大权 see styles |
shēng shā dà quán sheng1 sha1 da4 quan2 sheng sha ta ch`üan sheng sha ta chüan |
life-and-death power; ultimate power |
生滅滅已 生灭灭已 see styles |
shēng miè miè yǐ sheng1 mie4 mie4 yi3 sheng mieh mieh i shoumetsumetsui / shometsumetsui しょうめつめつい |
(expression) (yoji) {Buddh} going beyond life and death and entering Nirvana arising and ceasing are extinguished |
生離死別 生离死别 see styles |
shēng lí sǐ bié sheng1 li2 si3 bie2 sheng li ssu pieh |
separated in life and death; to part for ever |
老少不定 see styles |
roushoufutei; roushoufujou / roshofute; roshofujo ろうしょうふてい; ろうしょうふじょう |
(yoji) death comes to old and young alike; uncertainty of life |
貪生怕死 贪生怕死 see styles |
tān shēng pà sǐ tan1 sheng1 pa4 si3 t`an sheng p`a ssu tan sheng pa ssu |
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly; clinging abjectly to life; only interested in saving one's neck |
魚死網破 鱼死网破 see styles |
yú sǐ wǎng pò yu2 si3 wang3 po4 yü ssu wang p`o yü ssu wang po |
lit. either the fish dies or the net splits; a life and death struggle (idiom) |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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