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克己 / 剋己 can be translated as "self-denial," "self-abnegation," "self-restraint," "self-discipline," "self-mastery" or selflessness.
As a tenet of Korean taekwondo, and other martial arts, this is often used with the title "self-control."
The short and sweet version of self-control.
Note: This can also mean self-restraint.
See Also: Will-Power | Discipline
Moderation is creating a healthy balance in your life between work and play, rest and exercise. You don't overdo or get swept away by the things you like. You use your self-discipline to take charge of your life and your time.
節制 can also be translated as sobriety, self-restraint, or temperance.
節制 is often used as part of the Seven Heavenly Virtues to represent sobriety and/or temperance.
qiān xùn zhèng zhí wēn róu rěn nài kè jǐ bù qū
These are the virtues used by Choi Kwang Do Martial Arts.
| English | Hanja | Hangul | Pronunciation |
| 1. Humility (Humble / Modesty) | 謙遜 | 겸손 | gyeom son |
| 2. Honesty (Integrity) | 正直 | 정직 | jeong jig |
| 3. Gentleness | 溫柔 | 온유 | on yu |
| 4. Perseverance (To Endure) | 忍耐 | 인내 | in nae |
| 5. Self-Control (Self-Restraint) | 克己 | 극기 | geug gi |
| 6. Unbreakable Spirit (Unyielding / Unbending) | 不屈 | 불굴 | bur gur |
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
佛 see styles |
fó / fo2 fo hotoke / ほとけ butsusaki / ぶつさき |
 More info & calligraphy: Buddha; Buddhism (surname) Hotoke; (surname) ButsusakiBuddha, from budh to "be aware of", "conceive", "observe", "wake"; also 佛陀; 浮圖; 浮陀; 浮頭; 浮塔; 勃陀; 勃馱; 沒馱; 母馱; 母陀; 部陀; 休屠. Buddha means "completely conscious, enlightened", and came to mean the enlightener. he Chinese translation is 覺 to perceive, aware, awake; and 智 gnosis, knowledge. There is an Eternal Buddha, see e.g. the Lotus Sutra, cap. 16, and multitudes of Buddhas, but the personality of a Supreme Buddha, an Ādi-Buddha, is not defined. Buddha is in and through all things, and some schools are definitely Pan-Buddhist in the pantheistic sense. In the triratna 三寳 commonly known as 三寳佛, while Śākyamuni Buddha is the first "person" of the Trinity, his Law the second, and the Order the third, all three by some are accounted as manifestations of the All-Buddha. As Śākyamuni, the title indicates him as the last of the line of Buddhas who have appeared in this world, Maitreya is to be the next. As such he is the one who has achieved enlightenment, having discovered the essential evil of existence (some say mundane existence, others all existence), and the way of deliverance from the constant round of reincarnations; this way is through the moral life into nirvana, by means of self-abnegation, the monastic life, and meditation. By this method a Buddha, or enlightened one, himself obtains Supreme Enlightenment, or Omniscience, and according to Māhāyanism leads all beings into the same enlightenment. He sees things not as they seem in their phenomenal but in their noumenal aspects, as they really are. The term is also applied to those who understand the chain of causality (twelve nidānas) and have attained enlightenment surpassing that of the arhat. Four types of the Buddha are referred to: (1) 三藏佛the Buddha of the Tripiṭaka who attained enlightenment on the bare ground under the bodhi-tree; (2) 通佛the Buddha on the deva robe under the bodhi-tree of the seven precious things; (3) 別佛the Buddha on the great precious Lotus throne under the Lotus realm bodhi-tree; and (4) 圓佛the Buddha on the throne of Space in the realm of eternal rest and glory where he is Vairocana. The Hīnayāna only admits the existence of one Buddha at a time; Mahāyāna claims the existence of many Buddhas at one and the same time, as many Buddhas as there are Buddha-universes, which are infinite in number. |
信 see styles |
xìn / xin4 hsin shin / しん |
 More info & calligraphy: letter; mail; CL:封[feng1]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random (1) honesty; sincerity; fidelity; (2) trust; reliance; confidence; (3) (religious) faith; devotion; (counter) (4) counter for received messages; (female given name) Yuki; (female given name) Michi; (female given name) Makoto; (personal name) Noburu; (personal name) Nobutsugu; (surname) Nobutaka; (personal name) Nobuji; (surname) Nobusaki; (personal name) Nobukatsu; (female given name) Nobu; (personal name) Shinji; (surname, female given name) Shin; (female given name) Shino; (female given name) Akiraśraddhā. Faith; to believe; belief; faith regarded as the faculty of the mind which sees, appropriates, and trusts the things of religion; it joyfully trusts in the Buddha, in the pure virtue of the triratna and earthly and transcendental goodness; it is the cause of the pure life, and the solvent of doubt. Two forms are mentioned: (1) adhimukti, intuition, tr. by self-assured enlightenment. (2) śraddhā, faith through hearing or being taught. For the Awakening of Faith, Śraddhotpāda, v. 起信論. |
妾 see styles |
qiè / qie4 ch`ieh / chieh warawa / わらわ mekake / めかけ sobame / そばめ onname / おんなめ |
 More info & calligraphy: concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women) (pn,adj-no) (archaism) (humble language) (feminine speech) I; me; (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) mistress; kept woman; concubine |
影 see styles |
yǐng / ying3 ying kage / かげ |
 More info & calligraphy: picture; image; film; movie; photograph; reflection; shadow; trace (1) shadow; silhouette; figure; shape; (2) reflection; image; (3) ominous sign; (4) light (stars, moon); (5) trace; shadow (of one's former self); (surname) Kage; (personal name) Eiji; (given name) EiShadow, picture, image, reflection, hint; one of the twelve 'colours'. |
忍 see styles |
rěn / ren3 jen nin / にん |
 More info & calligraphy: to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself (archaism) endurance; forbearance; patience; self-restraint; (given name) Nin; (surname, female given name) Shinobu; (place-name) Shinobi; (female given name) Shino; (p,s,g) Oshi; (female given name) Azumikṣānti, 羼提 (or 羼底); patience, endurance, (a) in adverse circumstances, (b) in the religious state. There are groups of two, three, four, five, six, ten, and fourteen, indicating various forms of patience, equanimity, repression, forbearance, endurance, constancy, or "perseverance of the saints," both in mundane and spiritual things; to endure |
猿 see styles |
yuán / yuan2 yüan mashira / ましら mashi / まし saru / さる |
 More info & calligraphy: ape (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate; (1) (kana only) monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate; (2) (derogatory term) sly person; (3) (derogatory term) idiot; hick; (4) sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); (5) clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook; (6) (archaism) bathhouse prostitute; (surname) Mase; (surname) Mashira; (female given name) Sarumonkey |
空 see styles |
kòng // kōng / kong4 // kong1 k`ung / kung kuu / ku / くう kara / から |
 More info & calligraphy: to empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time; empty; air; sky; in vain (1) empty air; sky; (2) {Buddh} shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon; (3) (abbreviation) (See 空軍) air force; (noun or adjectival noun) (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness; (5) (See 五大・1) void (one of the five elements); (can be adjective with の) (6) {math} empty (e.g. set); (noun - becomes adjective with の) emptiness; vacuum; blank; (female given name) Ron; (personal name) Hiroshi; (female given name) Hikari; (female given name) Haruka; (female given name) Noa; (surname) Sorasaki; (female given name) Sora; (female given name) Sukai; (female given name) Shieru; (personal name) Kuukai; (surname, female given name) Kuu; (female given name) Kanata; (female given name) Kasumi; (female given name) Urue; (surname, female given name) Aki; (female given name) Aoiśūnya, empty, void, hollow, vacant, nonexistent. śūnyatā, 舜若多, vacuity, voidness, emptiness, non-existence, immateriality, perhaps spirituality, unreality, the false or illusory nature of all existence, the seeming 假 being unreal. The doctrine that all phenomena and the ego have no reality, but are composed of a certain number of skandhas or elements, which disintegrate. The void, the sky, space. The universal, the absolute, complete abstraction without relativity. There are classifications into 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, and 18 categories. The doctrine is that all things are compounds, or unstable organisms, possessing no self-essence, i.e. are dependent, or caused, come into existence only to perish. The underlying reality, the principle of eternal relativity, or non-infinity, i.e. śūnya, permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution. From this doctrine the Yogācārya school developed the idea of the permanent reality, which is Essence of Mind, the unknowable noumenon behind all phenomena, the entity void of ideas and phenomena, neither matter nor mind, but the root of both. |
身 see styles |
shēn / shen1 shen mi / み |
 More info & calligraphy: body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158 (1) body; (2) oneself; (3) one's place; one's position; (4) main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.); wood (as opposed to bark); blade (as opposed to its handle); container (as opposed to its lid); (surname) Misakikāya; tanu; deha. The body; the self.; Two forms of body; there are numerous pairs, e. g. (1) (a) 分段身 The varied forms of the karmic or ordinary mortal body, or being; (b) 變易身 the transformable, or spiritual body. (2) (a) 生身 The earthly body of the Buddha; (b) 化身 hinirmāṇakāya, which may take any form at will. (3) (a) 生身 his earthly body; (b) 法身 his moral and mental nature—a Hīnayāna definition, but Mahāyāna takes his earthly nirmāṇakāya as the 生身 and his dharmakāya or that and his saṃbhogakāya as 法身. (4) 眞應二身 The dharmakāya and nirmāṇakāya. (5) (a) 實相身 The absolute truth, or light, of the Buddha, i. e. the dharmakāya; (b) 爲物身 the functioning or temporal body. (6) (a) 眞身 the dharmakāya and saṃbhogakāya; (b) 化身 the nirmāṇakāya. (7) (a) 常身 his permanent or eternal body; (b) 無常身 his temporal body. (8) (a) 實身 and 化身 idem 二色身. |
鬼 see styles |
guǐ / gui3 kuei oni(p);ki / おに(P);き |
 More info & calligraphy: ghost; demon; terrible; damnable; clever; sly; crafty; (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc); one of the 28 constellations (1) oni; ogre; demon; (2) (See 亡魂) spirit of a deceased person; (3) (おに only) ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); (4) (おに only) (See 鬼ごっこ・おにごっこ) it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); (5) (き only) {astron} (See 二十八宿,朱雀・すざく・2) Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); (prefix) (6) (おに only) (slang) (See 超・1) very; extremely; super-; (surname) Miniwa; (surname) Kisaragi; (surname) Oniyanagi; (personal name) Onikatsu; (surname) Onipreta 薜荔多, departed, dead; a disembodied spirit, dead person, ghost; a demon, evil being; especially a 餓鬼 hungry ghost. They are of many kinds. The Fan-i ming i classifies them as poor, medium, and rich; each again thrice subdivided: (1) (a) with mouths like burning torches; (b) throats no bigger than needles; (c) vile breath, disgusting to themselves; (2) (a) needle-haired, self-piercing; (b) hair sharp and stinking; (c) having great wens on whose pus they must feed. (3) (a) living on the remains of sacrifices; (b) on leavings in general; (c) powerful ones, yakṣas, rākṣasas, piśācas, etc. All belong to the realm of Yama, whence they are sent everywhere, consequently are ubiquitous in every house, lane, market, mound, stream, tree, etc. |
修養 修养 see styles |
xiū yǎng / xiu1 yang3 hsiu yang shuuyou / shuyo / しゅうよう |
accomplishment; training; self-cultivation (noun/participle) self-improvement; (mental) training; self-discipline; cultivation cultivating moral character |
克己 see styles |
kokki / こっき |
 More info & calligraphy: (n,vs,adj-no) self denial; self control; (given name) Yoshimi; (given name) Kokki; (surname, given name) Katsumi; (female given name) Katsuki |
克服 see styles |
kè fú / ke4 fu2 k`o fu / ko fu kokufuku / こくふく |
 More info & calligraphy: (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with; to endure (noun/participle) conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over |
我慢 see styles |
wǒ màn / wo3 man4 wo man gaman / がまん |
 More info & calligraphy: (noun/participle) patience; endurance; perseverance; tolerance; self-control; self-denial; (surname) Gamanabhimāna, ātma-mada. Egoism exalting self and depreciating others; self-intoxication, pride; identity |
抑制 see styles |
yì zhì / yi4 zhi4 i chih yokusei / yokuse / よくせい |
to inhibit; to keep down; to suppress (n,vs,adj-no) control; restraint; suppression; constraint; curtailment; inhibition; check; curb |
拳法 see styles |
quán fǎ / quan2 fa3 ch`üan fa / chüan fa kenpou / kenpo / けんぽう |
 More info & calligraphy: boxing; fighting technique Chinese art of self-defence (defense) |
捨己 舍己 see styles |
shě jǐ / she3 ji3 she chi sutemi / すてみ suteki / すてき |
selfless; self-sacrifice (to help others); self-renunciation; altruism (given name) Sutemi; (given name) Suteki |
正念 see styles |
zhèng niàn / zheng4 nian4 cheng nien shounen / shonen / しょうねん |
 More info & calligraphy: correct mindfulness (Buddhism) (1) {Buddh} (See 八正道) right mindfulness; (2) true faith (in rebirth in the promised land); (place-name) Shounensamyak-smṛti, right remembrance, the seventh of the 八正道; 'right mindfullness, the looking on the body and the spirit in such a way as to remain ardent, self-possessed and mindful, having overcome both hankering and dejection. ' Keith; correct mindfulness |
武術 武术 see styles |
wǔ shù / wu3 shu4 wu shu bujutsu / ぶじゅつ |
military skill or technique (in former times); all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development); self-defense; tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage); also called kungfu 功夫; CL:種|种[zhong3] (1) {MA} martial arts; military arts; (2) (See 武術太極拳) wushu; modern sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts |
無我 无我 see styles |
wú wǒ / wu2 wo3 wu wo muga / むが |
anatta (Buddhist concept of "non-self") (1) selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; (2) {Buddh} anatta; anatman; doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls; (female given name) Muga anātman; nairātmya; no ego, no soul (of an independent and self-contained character), impersonal, no individual independent existence (of conscious or unconscious beings, anātmaka). The empirical ego is merely an aggregation of various elements, and with their disintegration it ceases to exist; therefore it has nm ultimate reality of its own, but the Nirvāṇa Sūtra asserts the reality of the ego in the transcendental realm. The non-Buddhist definition of ego is that it has permanent individuality 常一之體 and is independent or sovereign 有主宰之用. When applied to men it is 人我, when to things it is 法我. Cf. 常 11; no-self |
無量 无量 see styles |
wú liàng / wu2 liang4 wu liang muryou / muryo / むりょう |
measureless; immeasurable (noun - becomes adjective with の) immeasurable; (given name) Muryou apramāṇa; amita; ananta; immeasurable, unlimited, e.g. the 'four infinite' characteristics of a bodhisattva are 慈悲喜捨 kindness, pity, joy, and self-sacrifice; uncountable |
独立 see styles |
dokuritsu / どくりつ |
(adj-na,n,vs) independence (e.g. Independence Day); self-support |
空無 空无 see styles |
kōng wú / kong1 wu2 k`ung wu / kung wu kūmu |
Unreality, or immateriality, of things, which is defined as nothing existing of independent or self-contained nature; emptiness |
節制 节制 see styles |
jié zhì / jie2 zhi4 chieh chih sessei / sesse / せっせい |
to control; to restrict; to moderate; to temper; moderation; sobriety; to administer (n,vs,adj-no) moderation; self-restraint; temperance |
自信 see styles |
zì xìn / zi4 xin4 tzu hsin jishin / じしん |
 More info & calligraphy: to have confidence in oneself; self-confidence (noun/participle) self-confidence; confidence (in oneself); (surname) Jishin |
自制 see styles |
zì zhì / zi4 zhi4 tzu chih jisei / jise / じせい |
 More info & calligraphy: to maintain self-control; self-control (n,vs,adj-no) self control; self restraint |
自力 see styles |
zì lì / zi4 li4 tzu li jiriki(p);jiryoku / じりき(P);じりょく |
 More info & calligraphy: (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) one's own strength; one's own efforts; (2) {Buddh} self-salvation; (place-name) Jirikiself-power |
自尊 see styles |
zì zūn / zi4 zun1 tzu tsun jison / じそん |
 More info & calligraphy: self-respect; self-esteem; ego; pride self-respect; esteem; self-importance; pride |
自強 自强 see styles |
zì qiáng / zi4 qiang2 tzu ch`iang / tzu chiang jikyou / jikyo / じきょう |
to strive for self-improvement (noun/participle) strenuous effort |
自律 see styles |
zì lǜ / zi4 lu:4 tzu lü jiritsu / じりつ |
 More info & calligraphy: self-discipline; self-regulation; autonomy (ethics); autonomic (physiology) (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) (See 他律) autonomy (philosophy); (2) self-control |
自恃 see styles |
zì shì / zi4 shi4 tzu shih |
 More info & calligraphy: self-esteem; self-reliance; overconfident; conceited |
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| Title | Characters | Romaji(Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Self-Restraint Self-Control | 克己 / 剋己 克己 | kokki / koki | kè jǐ / ke4 ji3 / ke ji / keji | k`o chi / kochi / ko chi |
| Self-Control | 自制 | jisei | zì zhì / zi4 zhi4 / zi zhi / zizhi | tzu chih / tzuchih |
| Moderation | 節制 节制 | sessei / sesei | jié zhì / jie2 zhi4 / jie zhi / jiezhi | chieh chih / chiehchih |
| Korean CKD Virtues | 謙遜正直溫柔忍耐克己不屈 谦逊正直温柔忍耐克己不屈 | qiān xùn zhèng zhí wēn róu rěn nài kè jǐ bù qū qian1 xun4 zheng4 zhi2 wen1 rou2 ren3 nai4 ke4 ji3 bu4 qu1 qian xun zheng zhi wen rou ren nai ke ji bu qu | ch`ien hsün cheng chih wen jou jen nai k`o chi pu ch`ü chien hsün cheng chih wen jou jen nai ko chi pu chü |
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