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yàn
    yan4
yen
 yasushi
    やすし

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Swallow
swallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴[yan4]
(1) (kana only) swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin; (2) barn swallow (Hirundo rustica); (3) (See 若い燕) younger man involved with an older woman; boy toy; (given name) Yasushi

兄姉

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 keishi; kyoudai(gikun) / keshi; kyodai(gikun)
    けいし; きょうだい(gikun)

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Brother and Sister
(form) older brother and older sister

先輩


先辈

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xiān bèi
    xian1 bei4
hsien pei
 senpai
    せんぱい

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Senpai / The Elder or Master
an older generation; ancestors; forefathers
(See 後輩・こうはい) senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer

師傅


师傅

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shī fu
    shi1 fu5
shih fu
 shifu
    しふ

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Master / Skilled Worker
master; qualified worker; respectful form of address for older men; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
guardian and tutor of a nobleman's child

瑜伽

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yú jiā
    yu2 jia1
yü chia
 yuga
    ゆが

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Yoga
(loanword) yoga
{Buddh} (See ヨーガ) yoga; (surname) Yuga
yoga; also 瑜誐; 遊迦; a yoke, yoking, union, especially an ecstatic union of the individual soul with a divine being, or spirit, also of the individual soul with the universal soul. The method requires the mutual response or relation of 境, 行, 理, 果 and 機; i.e. (1) state, or environment, referred to mind; (2) action, or mode of practice; (3) right principle; (4) results in enlightenment; (5) motivity, i.e. practical application in saving others. Also the mutual relation of hand, mouth, and mind referring to manifestation, incantation, and mental operation; these are known as 瑜伽三密, the three esoteric (means) of Yoga. The older practice of meditation as a means of obtaining spiritual or magical power was distorted in Tantrism to exorcism, sorcery, and juggling in general.

觀世音


观世音

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guān shì yīn
    guan1 shi4 yin1
kuan shih yin
 Kanzeon
    かんぜおん

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Guan Shi Yin: Protector Of Life
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
(out-dated kanji) Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion
Regarder of the world's sounds, or cries, the so-called Goddess of Mercy; also known as 觀音; 觀世音善薩; 觀自在 (觀世自在); 觀尹; 光世音 (the last being the older form). Avalokiteśvara, v. 阿 8. Originally represented as a male, the images are now generally those of a female figure. The meaning of the term is in doubt; it is intp. as above, but the term 觀自在 (觀世自在) accords with the idea of Sovereign Regarder and is not associated with sounds or cries. Guanyin is one of the triad of Amida, is represented on his left, and is also represented as crowned with Amida; but there are as many as thirty-three different forms of Guanyin, sometimes with a bird, a vase, a willow wand, a pearl, a 'thousand' eyes and hands, etc., and, when as bestower of children, carrying a child. The island of Putuo (Potala) is the chief centre of Guanyin worship, where she is the protector of all in distress, especially of those who go to sea. There are many sūtras, etc., devoted to the cult, but its provenance and the date of its introduction to China are still in doubt. Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sūtra is devoted to Guanyin, and is the principal scripture of the cult; its date is uncertain. Guanyin is sometimes confounded with Amitābha and Maitreya. She is said to be the daughter of king Śubhavyūha 妙莊王, who had her killed by 'stifling because the sword of the executioner broke without hurting her. Her spirit went to hell; but hell changed into paradise. Yama sent her back to life to save his hell, when she was miraculously transported on a Lotus flower to the island of Poo-too'. Eitel.

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jiě
    jie3
chieh
 ane
    あね
older sister
(humble language) older sister; elder sister

伯父

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bó fù
    bo2 fu4
po fu
 eoji
    えおじ
father's elder brother; term of respect for older man; CL:個|个[ge4]
(archaism) (See 阿叔) uncle (one's father's older brother)

年上

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nián shàng
    nian2 shang4
nien shang
 toshiue
    としうえ
(slang) the older person in a romantic relationship; an older partner
(noun - becomes adjective with の) older; senior

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zhàng
    zhang4
chang
 masuo
    ますお
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband; polite appellation for an older male
(particle) (1) (kana only) only; just; merely; simply; no more than; nothing but; alone; (particle) (2) (kana only) as much as; to the extent of; enough to; (given name) Masuo
Ten feet; an elder; a wife's parents; a husband.

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xiōng
    xiong1
hsiung
 kei / ke
    けい
elder brother
(suffix noun) (familiar language) (See お兄さん・1) older brother; elder brother; (personal name) Kei
Elder brother.

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xiān
    xian1
hsien
 hirosaki
    ひろさき
beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
(adj-no,n) (1) former; previous; old; (2) first move (in go, shogi, etc.); opening move; (surname) Hirosaki
Fore, before, former, first; precede.


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    zi3
tzu
 anezaki
    あねざき
old variant of 姊[zi3]
(suffix noun) (familiar language) older sister; (surname) Anezaki

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    zi3
tzu
older sister; Taiwan pr. [jie3]

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    si4
ssu
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old); elder sister (old)

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āi
    ai1
ai
see 娭姐[ai1 jie3], father's mother; granny (dialect); respectful form of address for older lady

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sǎo
    sao3
sao
 aniyome
    あによめ
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
elder brother's wife; sister-in-law


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yùn
    yun4
yün
 osamu
    おさむ
to accumulate; to hold in store; to contain; to gather together; to collect; depth; inner strength; profundity
(given name) Osamu
skandha, v. 塞; older tr. 陰, intp. as that which covers or conceals, implying that physical and mental forms obstruct realization of the truth; while the tr. 蘊, implying an accumulation or heap, is a nearer connotation to skandha, which, originally meaning the shoulder, becomes stem, branch, combination, the objects of sense, the elements of being or mundane consciousness. The term is intp. as the five physical and mental constituents, which combine to form the intelligent 性 or nature; rūpa, the first of the five, is considered as physical, the remaining four as mental; v. 五蘊. The skandhas refer only to the phenomenal, not to the 無爲 non-phenomenal.

世伯

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shì bó
    shi4 bo2
shih po
uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father); old friend

二圓


二圆

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èr yuán
    er4 yuan2
erh yüan
 nien
The two perfect doctrines, a term of the Tiantai School, called 今圓 (also 開顯圓 and 絶待圓) and 昔圓 (also 相待圓 ). 今圓 is the present really perfect 一實 doctrine arising from the Lotus Sūtra; 昔圓 is the older, or 相待 comparatively speaking perfect doctrine of the pre-Lotus teaching, that of the 藏, 通, and 別 schools; but the older was for limited salvation and not universal like the 今圓; these two are also termed 部圓 and 教圓 . The Huayan school has a division of the two perfections into 漸圓 gradual perfection and 頓圓 immediate perfection.

五陰


五阴

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wǔ yīn
    wu3 yin1
wu yin
 goon
    ごおん
(archaism) {Buddh} (See 五蘊) the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness); the five aggregates
五衆 see 五蘊. 陰 is the older term.

今圓


今圆

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jīn yuán
    jin1 yuan2
chin yüan
 kon'en
A Tiantai term indicating the present 'perfect' teaching, i. e. that of the Lotus, as compared with the 昔圓 older 'perfect ' teaching which preceded it.

令兄

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lìng xiōng
    ling4 xiong1
ling hsiung
 reikei / reke
    れいけい
Your esteemed older brother (honorific)
(honorific or respectful language) your elder brother

伯仲

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 hakuchuu / hakuchu
    はくちゅう
(n,vs,vi) (1) being evenly matched; being equal with; being on a par with; being well contested; (2) (archaism) (orig. meaning) eldest and second eldest brother; older and younger brother; (place-name) Hakuchuu

佉沙

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qiā shā
    qia1 sha1
ch`ia sha
    chia sha
 Kasha
Kashgar, a country in E. Turkestan, east of the Pamirs, S. of Tianshan; the older name, after the name of its capital, is sometimes given as 疏勒 or 室利訖栗多底 Śrīkrītati.

兄上

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 aniue
    あにうえ
(honorific or respectful language) older brother

兄事

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 keiji / keji
    けいじ
(n,vs,vi) defer to another as if an older brother

兄分

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 anibun
    あにぶん
(1) (See 弟分) sworn elder brother; (2) older male in an homosexual relationship

兄妹

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xiōng mèi
    xiong1 mei4
hsiung mei
 keimai; kyoudai(gikun) / kemai; kyodai(gikun)
    けいまい; きょうだい(gikun)
brother(s) and sister(s)
older brother and younger sister

兄姫

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 ehime
    えひめ
(archaism) elder princess; older princess

兄御

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 anigo
    あにご
(honorific or respectful language) elder brother; (another's) older brother

兄心

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 konokamigokoro
    このかみごころ
(archaism) solicitude befitting an older brother or older person

兄様

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 niisama / nisama
    にいさま
(honorific or respectful language) older brother

兄者

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 anija
    あにじゃ
(honorific or respectful language) (See 兄者人) older brother

兄貴

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 aniki(p); aniki
    あにき(P); アニキ
(1) (familiar language) (honorific or respectful language) elder brother; (2) one's senior; (3) older man; man older than oneself

內兄


内兄

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nèi xiōng
    nei4 xiong1
nei hsiung
wife's older brother

六情

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liù qíng
    liu4 qing2
liu ch`ing
    liu ching
 rokujou / rokujo
    ろくじょう
the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love and hatred)
The emotions arising from the six organs of sense 六根 for which term 六情 is the older interpretation; v. 六依.

六親


六亲

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liù qīn
    liu4 qin1
liu ch`in
    liu chin
 rokushin
    ろくしん
six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3]; one's kin
the six blood relations
The six immediate relations— father and mother, wife and child, elder and younger brothers.

前輩


前辈

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qián bèi
    qian2 bei4
ch`ien pei
    chien pei
senior; older generation; precursor

加齢

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 karei / kare
    かれい
(n,vs,vi) aging; ageing; growing older

叔叔

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shū shu
    shu1 shu5
shu shu
father's younger brother; paternal uncle; form of address used by children for a male one generation older

哥哥

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gē ge
    ge1 ge5
ko ko
older brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

喇嘛

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lǎ ma
    la3 ma5
la ma
 rama
    らま
lama, spiritual teacher in Tibetan Buddhism
(ateji / phonetic) (kana only) lama (tib: bla-ma)
Lama, the Lamaistic form of Buddhism found chiefly in Tibet, and Mongolia, and the smaller Himālayan States. In Tibet it is divided into two schools, the older one wearing red robes, the later, which was founded by Tson-kha-pa in the fifteenth century, wearing yellow; its chiefs are the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, respectively.

四德

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sì dé
    si4 de2
ssu te
 shitoku
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends; the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
The four nirvana virtues, or values, according to the Mahāyāna Nirvana Sutra: (1) 常德 permanence or eternity; (2) 樂德 joy; (3) 我德 personality or the soul; (4) 淨德 purity. These four important terms, while denied in the lower realms, are affirmed by the sutra in the transcendental, or nirvana-realm.

堂兄

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táng xiōng
    tang2 xiong1
t`ang hsiung
    tang hsiung
older male patrilineal cousin

堂哥

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táng gē
    tang2 ge1
t`ang ko
    tang ko
older male patrilineal cousin

堂姊

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táng zǐ
    tang2 zi3
t`ang tzu
    tang tzu
older female patrilineal cousin

堂姐

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táng jiě
    tang2 jie3
t`ang chieh
    tang chieh
older female patrilineal cousin

堂嫂

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táng sǎo
    tang2 sao3
t`ang sao
    tang sao
wife of older male cousin via male line

大乘

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dà shèng
    da4 sheng4
ta sheng
 oonori
    おおのり
Mahayana, the Great Vehicle; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond; also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
(surname) Oonori
Mahāyāna; also called 上乘; 妙乘; 勝乘; 無上乘; 無上上乘; 不惡乘; 無等乘, 無等等乘; 摩訶衍 The great yāna, wain, or conveyance, or the greater vehicle in comparison with the 小乘 Hīnayāna. It indicates universalism, or Salvation for all, for all are Buddha and will attain bodhi. It is the form of Buddhism prevalent in Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, and in other places in the Far East. It is also called Northern Buddhism. It is interpreted as 大教 the greater teaching as compared with 小教 the smaller, or inferior. Hīnayāna, which is undoubtedly nearer to the original teaching of the Buddha, is unfairly described as an endeavour to seek nirvana through an ash-covered body, an extinguished intellect, and solitariness; its followers are sravakas and pratyekabuddhas (i.e. those who are striving for their own deliverance through ascetic works). Mahāyāna, on the other hand, is described as seeking to find and extend all knowledge, and, in certain schools, to lead all to Buddhahood. It has a conception of an Eternal Buddha, or Buddhahood as Eternal (Adi-Buddha), but its especial doctrines are, inter alia, (a) the bodhisattvas 菩薩 , i.e. beings who deny themselves final Nirvana until, according to their vows, they have first saved all the living; (b) salvation by faith in, or invocation of the Buddhas or bodhisattvas; (c) Paradise as a nirvana of bliss in the company of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, saints, and believers. Hīnayāna is sometimes described as 自利 self-benefiting, and Mahāyāna as 自利利他 self-benefit for the benefit of others, unlimited altruism and pity being the theory of Mahāyāna. There is a further division into one-yana and three-yanas: the trīyāna may be śrāvaka, pratyeka-buddha, and bodhisattva, represented by a goat, deer, or bullock cart; the one-yāna is that represented by the Lotus School as the one doctrine of the Buddha, which had been variously taught by him according to the capacity of his hearers, v. 方便. Though Mahāyāna tendencies are seen in later forms of the older Buddhism, the foundation of Mahāyāna has been attributed to Nāgārjuna 龍樹. "The characteristics of this system are an excess of transcendental speculation tending to abstract nihilism, and the substitution of fanciful degrees of meditation and contemplation (v. Samādhi and Dhyāna) in place of the practical asceticism of the Hīnayāna school."[Eitel 68-9.] Two of its foundation books are the 起信論and the 妙法蓮華經 but a larnge numberof Mahāyāna sutras are ascribed to the Buddha。.

大伯

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dà bó
    da4 bo2
ta po
 oohaku
    おおはく
husband's older brother; father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
(surname) Oohaku

大兄

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 ooe
    おおえ
(1) (honorific or respectful language) older brother; (pronoun) (2) (honorific or respectful language) (used mainly in letters to address an older or same-aged male) (See 小弟・3) you; (surname) Ooe

大壽


大寿

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dà shòu
    da4 shou4
ta shou
(polite) birthday making the beginning of new decade of life for an older person, especially over 50 years old (e.g. 60th or 70th birthday)
See: 大寿

大姐

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dà jiě
    da4 jie3
ta chieh
big sister; elder sister; older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)

大姑

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dà gū
    da4 gu1
ta ku
father's oldest sister; husband's older sister; sister-in-law

大娘

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dà niáng
    da4 niang2
ta niang
(coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address)

大嫂

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dà sǎo
    da4 sao3
ta sao
older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)

大御

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 oomi
    おおみ
(archaism) (honorific or respectful language) older lady; (surname) Oomi

大爺


大爷

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dà ye
    da4 ye5
ta yeh
 ooya
    おおや
(coll.) father's older brother; uncle; term of respect for older man
(surname) Ooya

大齡


大龄

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dà líng
    da4 ling2
ta ling
older (than average in a group, at school, for marriage etc)

太爺


太爷

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tài yé
    tai4 ye2
t`ai yeh
    tai yeh
(respectful for) one's grandfather; sb's father; older people; the head of the house (used by servants); a district magistrate

姉上

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 aneue
    あねうえ
(honorific or respectful language) older sister

姉娘

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 anemusume
    あねむすめ
elder daughter; older daughter

姉弟

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 shitei; kyoudai(gikun) / shite; kyodai(gikun)
    してい; きょうだい(gikun)
older sister and younger brother

姉貴

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 aneki
    あねき
(1) (familiar language) (honorific or respectful language) (貴 is ateji) elder sister; (2) (honorific or respectful language) older female friend

姊丈

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zǐ zhàng
    zi3 zhang4
tzu chang
older sister's husband

姊夫

see styles
zǐ fu
    zi3 fu5
tzu fu
older sister's husband

姊妹

see styles
zǐ mèi
    zi3 mei4
tzu mei
(older and younger) sisters; sister (school, city etc)

姊姊

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zǐ zǐ
    zi3 zi3
tzu tzu
older sister; Taiwan pr. [jie3 jie5]

姐丈

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jiě zhàng
    jie3 zhang4
chieh chang
older sister's husband; brother-in-law

姐夫

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jiě fu
    jie3 fu5
chieh fu
(coll.) older sister's husband

姐姐

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jiě jie
    jie3 jie5
chieh chieh
older sister; CL:個|个[ge4]

娭姐

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āi jiě
    ai1 jie3
ai chieh
father's mother; granny (dialect); respectful form of address for older lady

嫂嫂

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sǎo sao
    sao3 sao5
sao sao
older brother's wife; sister-in-law; (polite address to a younger married woman) sister

嫂子

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sǎo zi
    sao3 zi5
sao tzu
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law

孝順


孝顺

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xiào shùn
    xiao4 shun4
hsiao shun
 takayori
    たかより
filial; dutiful; devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc); to show filial piety towards (an older family member); filial piety
(noun or adjectival noun) obedience; filial piety; (personal name) Takayori
Obedient.

學姐


学姐

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xué jiě
    xue2 jie3
hsüeh chieh
senior or older female schoolmate

學長


学长

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xué zhǎng
    xue2 zhang3
hsüeh chang
senior or older male schoolmate

実兄

see styles
 jikkei / jikke
    じっけい
biological older brother

実姉

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 jisshi
    じっし
biological older sister; real elder sister

家兄

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jiā xiōng
    jia1 xiong1
chia hsiung
 kakei / kake
    かけい
(polite) my elder brother
(dated) (humble language) my older brother

家姐

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jiā jiě
    jia1 jie3
chia chieh
(polite) my older sister

家親


家亲

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jiā qīn
    jia1 qin1
chia ch`in
    chia chin
 iechika
    いえちか
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents); one's deceased close relatives
(surname) Iechika

小乘

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xiǎo shèng
    xiao3 sheng4
hsiao sheng
 shōjō
Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle; Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras; also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2]
Hīnayāna 希那衍. The small, or inferior wain, or vehicle; the form of Buddhism which developed after Śākyamuni's death to about the beginning of the Christian era, when Mahāyāna doctrines were introduced. It is the orthodox school and more in direct line with the Buddhist succession than Mahāyānism which developed on lines fundamentally different. The Buddha was a spiritual doctor, less interested in philosophy than in the remedy for human misery and perpetual transmigration. He "turned aside from idle metaphysical speculations; if he held views on such topics, he deemed them valueless for the purposes of salvation, which was his goal" (Keith). Metaphysical speculations arose after his death, and naturally developed into a variety of Hīnayāna schools before and after the separation of a distinct school of Mahāyāna. Hīnayāna remains the form in Ceylon, Burma, and Siam, hence is known as Southern Buddhism in contrast with Northern Buddhism or Mahāyāna, the form chiefly prevalent from Nepal to Japan. Another rough division is that of Pali and Sanskrit, Pali being the general literary language of the surviving form of Hīnayāna, Sanskrit of Mahāyāna. The term Hīnayāna is of Mahāyānist origination to emphasize the universalism and altruism of Mahāyāna over the narrower personal salvation of its rival. According to Mahāyāna teaching its own aim is universal Buddhahood, which means the utmost development of wisdom and the perfect transformation of all the living in the future state; it declares that Hīnayāna, aiming at arhatship and pratyekabuddhahood, seeks the destruction of body and mind and extinction in nirvāṇa. For arhatship the 四諦Four Noble Truths are the foundation teaching, for pratyekabuddhahood the 十二因緣 twelve-nidānas, and these two are therefore sometimes styled the two vehicles 二乘. Tiantai sometimes calls them the (Hīnayāna) Tripiṭaka school. Three of the eighteen Hīnayāna schools were transported to China: 倶舍 (Abhidharma) Kośa; 成實 Satya-siddhi; and the school of Harivarman, the律 Vinaya school. These are described by Mahāyānists as the Buddha's adaptable way of meeting the questions and capacity of his hearers, though his own mind is spoken of as always being in the absolute Mahāyāna all-embracing realm. Such is the Mahāyāna view of Hīnayāna, and if the Vaipulya sūtras and special scriptures of their school, which are repudiated by Hīnayāna, are apocryphal, of which there seems no doubt, then Mahāyāna in condemning Hīnayāna must find other support for its claim to orthodoxy. The sūtras on which it chiefly relies, as regards the Buddha, have no authenticity; while those of Hīnayāna cannot be accepted as his veritable teaching in the absence of fundamental research. Hīnayāna is said to have first been divided into minority and majority sections immediately after the death of Śākyamuni, when the sthāvira, or older disciples, remained in what is spoken of as "the cave", some place at Rājagṛha, to settle the future of the order, and the general body of disciples remained outside; these two are the first 上坐部 and 大衆部 q. v. The first doctrinal division is reported to have taken place under the leadership of the monk 大天 Mahādeva (q.v.) a hundred years after the Buddha's nirvāṇa and during the reign of Aśoka; his reign, however, has been placed later than this by historians. Mahādeva's sect became the Mahāsāṅghikā, the other the Sthāvira. In time the two are said to have divided into eighteen, which with the two originals are the so-called "twenty sects" of Hīnayāna. Another division of four sects, referred to by Yijing, is that of the 大衆部 (Arya) Mahāsaṅghanikāya, 上座部 Āryasthavirāḥ, 根本說一切有部 Mūlasarvāstivādaḥ, and 正量部 Saṃmatīyāḥ. There is still another division of five sects, 五部律. For the eighteen Hīnayāna sects see 小乘十八部.

少丁

see styles
 shouchou; shoutei / shocho; shote
    しょうちょう; しょうてい
(archaism) (hist) men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryō system)

師兄


师兄

see styles
shī xiōng
    shi1 xiong1
shih hsiung
 shi kei
senior male fellow student or apprentice; son (older than oneself) of one's teacher
senior disciple

師姐


师姐

see styles
shī jiě
    shi1 jie3
shih chieh
senior female fellow student or apprentice; daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher

年兄

see styles
nián xiōng
    nian2 xiong1
nien hsiung
lit. older brother; fig. fellow students who are successful in the imperial examinations

年嵩

see styles
 toshikasa
    としかさ
(adj-no,n) senior; older; elderly

年強

see styles
 toshizuyo
    としづよ
(noun or adjectival noun) being older or a senior; the first half of the year

年長


年长

see styles
nián zhǎng
    nian2 zhang3
nien chang
 nenchou / nencho
    ねんちょう
senior
(adj-no,adj-na,n) (1) senior; older; (2) third-year kindergarten student

従兄

see styles
 juukei; itoko(gikun) / juke; itoko(gikun)
    じゅうけい; いとこ(gikun)
(See 従弟) cousin (older male)

従姉

see styles
 juushi; itoko(gikun) / jushi; itoko(gikun)
    じゅうし; いとこ(gikun)
(See 従妹) cousin (older female)

從兄


从兄

see styles
cóng xiōng
    cong2 xiong1
ts`ung hsiung
    tsung hsiung
older male second cousin

心數


心数

see styles
xīn shù
    xin1 shu4
hsin shu
 shinju
An older term for 心所q. v. the several qualities of the mind. The esoterics make Vairocana the 心王, i. e. Mind or Will, and 心數 the moral qualities, or mental attributes, are personified as his retinue.

念人

see styles
 nennin; nenjin
    ねんにん; ねんじん
(1) (archaism) assistant in a competition (e.g. cockfight, archery, poetry contest); (2) (archaism) (See 念者・2) older male in an homosexual relationship

念者

see styles
 nensha; nenja
    ねんしゃ; ねんじゃ
(1) (archaism) careful and thorough person; (2) (ねんじゃ only) (archaism) (See 若衆・4) older male in an homosexual relationship

愚兄

see styles
 gukei / guke
    ぐけい
(1) (humble language) (one's) older brother; (2) foolish older brother

愚姉

see styles
 gushi
    ぐし
(humble language) older sister

慈祥

see styles
cí xiáng
    ci2 xiang2
tz`u hsiang
    tzu hsiang
 jishou / jisho
    じしょう
kindly; benevolent (often of older person)
(given name) Jishou

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