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There are 11 total results for your 八海 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

八海

see styles
bā hǎi
    ba1 hai3
pa hai
 hakkai
    はっかい
(surname) Hakkai
v. 九山八海.

八海山

see styles
 hakkaisan
    はっかいさん
(place-name) Hakkaisan

八海橋

see styles
 yakaibashi
    やかいばし
(place-name) Yakaibashi

上八海

see styles
 kamiyakai
    かみやかい
(place-name) Kamiyakai

下八海

see styles
 shimoyakai
    しもやかい
(place-name) Shimoyakai

八海山荘

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 hakkaisansou / hakkaisanso
    はっかいさんそう
(place-name) Hakkaisansō

九山八海

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jiǔ shān bā hǎi
    jiu3 shan1 ba1 hai3
chiu shan pa hai
 kusan-hakkai
The nine cakravāla, or concentric mountain ranges or continents, separated by eight seas, of a universe. The central mountain of the nine is Sumeru 須彌 and around it are the ranges Khadiraka 佶提羅, Īṣādhara 伊沙陀羅, Yugaṃdhara 遊乾陀羅, Sudarśaṇa 蘇達梨舍那, Aśvakarṇa 安濕縛竭拏, Nemiṃdhara 尼民陀羅, Vinataka 毘那多迦, Cakravāda 斫迦羅; v. 七金山. The Abhidharma Kośa gives a different order: Sumeru, Yugaṃdhara, Īṣādhara, Khadiraka, Sudarśana, Aśvakarṇa, Vinataka, Nemiṃdhara, with an "iron-wheel" mountain encompassing all; there are also differences in the detail.

忍野八海

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 oshinohakkai
    おしのはっかい
(place-name) Oshinohakkai

新八海橋

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 shinhakkaibashi
    しんはっかいばし
(place-name) Shinhakkaibashi

八海山小屋

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 hakkaisangoya
    はっかいさんごや
(place-name) Hakkaisangoya

八海山ゴンドラ

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 hakkaisangondora
    はっかいさんゴンドラ
(place-name) Hakkaisan gondola
This page contains 11 results for "八海" 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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