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本篤・十六世
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(本)(篤)(十六)(六)(世)
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Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
本 see styles |
běn ben3 pen hon ほん |
More info & calligraphy: Ben(1) book; volume; script; (prefix) (2) this; present; current; ... in question; ... at issue; (prefix) (3) main; head; principal; (prefix) (4) real; genuine; regular; proper; (counter) (5) counter for long, cylindrical things; counter for films, TV shows, etc.; counter for goals, home runs, etc.; counter for telephone calls; (surname) Yanakamoto Radical, fundamental, original, principal, one's own; the Buddha himself, contrasted with 蹟 chi, traces left by him among men to educate them; also a volume of a book. |
篤 笃 see styles |
dǔ du3 tu toku とく |
serious (illness); sincere; true (surname) Toku Sincere; serious; consolidate. |
十六 see styles |
shí liù shi2 liu4 shih liu tomu とむ |
sixteen; 16 16; sixteen; (given name) Tomu ṣoḍaśa Sixteen is the esoteric (Shingon) perfect number, just as ten is the perfect number in the Huayan sūtra and generally, see 大日經疏 5. |
六 see styles |
liù liu4 liu ryuu; riu; riu / ryu; riu; riu リュー; リィウ; リウ |
six; 6 (numeric) (ロー in mahjong) six (chi: liù); (surname, given name) Roku ṣaṭ, ṣaḍ. Six. |
世 see styles |
shì shi4 shih sei / se せい |
life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble (counter) (1) counter for generations; (suffix noun) (2) {geol} epoch; (personal name) Toki yuga. An age, 1, 000th part of a kalpa.loka, the world. 世 originally meant a human generation, a period of thirty years; it is used in Buddhism both foryuga, a period of time ever flowing, andloka, the world, worldly, earthly. The world is that which is to be destroyed; it is sunk in the round of mortality, or transmigration; and conceals, or is a veil over reality. |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 5 results for "本篤・十六世" 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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