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専 see styles |
zhuān zhuan1 chuan sen せん |
Japanese variant of 專|专 (suffix noun) (1) (slang) exclusively doing ...; person who exclusively does ...; fetish for ...; someone with a fetish for ...; (2) (obsolete) first; most important thing; number one priority; (given name) Makoto |
弌 see styles |
yī yi1 i hajime はじめ |
archaic variant of 壹 banker's anti-fraud numeral one (num,pref) (1) one; (adj-no,suf) (2) best; (can be adjective with の) (3) first; foremost; (4) beginning; start; (5) bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.); (female given name) Hajime |
戒 see styles |
jiè jie4 chieh kai; ingoto(ok) かい; いんごと(ok) |
to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing something; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger) (1) (かい only) {Buddh} admonition; commandment; (2) sila (precept) śīla, 尸羅. Precept, command, prohibition, discipline, rule; morality. It is applied to the five, eight, ten, 250, and other commandments. The five are: (1) not to kill; (2 ) not to steal; (3) not to commit adultery; (4) not to speak falsely; (5) not to drink wine. These are the commands for lay disciples; those who observe them will be reborn in the human realm. The Sarvāstivādins did not sanction the observance of a limited selection from them as did the 成實宗 Satyasiddhi school. Each of the five precepts has five guardian spirits, in all twenty-five, 五戒二十五神. The eight for lay disciples are the above five together with Nos. 7, 8, and 9 of the following; the ten commands for the ordained, monks and nuns, are the above five with the following: (6) not to use adornments of flowers, nor perfumes; (7) not to perform as an actor, juggler, acrobat, or go to watch and hear them; (8) not to sit on elevated, broad, and large divans (or beds); (9) not to eat except in regulation hours; (10) not to possess money, gold or silver, or precious things. The 具足戒full commands for a monk number 250, those for a nun are 348, commonly called 500. Śīla is also the first of the 五分法身, i.e. a condition above all moral error. The Sutra of Brahma's Net has the following after the first five: (6) not to speak of the sins of those in orders; (7) not to vaunt self and depreciate others; (8) not to be avaricious; (9) not to be angry; (10) not to slander the triratna. |
朕 see styles |
zhèn zhen4 chen chin ちん |
(used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we"); (literary) omen (pronoun) (dated) (first person pronoun used by the Emperor) We |
梗 see styles |
gěng geng3 keng kyō |
branch; stem; stalk; CL:根[gen1]; to block; to hinder; (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc); prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) illness |
正 see styles |
zhèng zheng4 cheng masa まさ |
straight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positive (noun or adjectival noun) (archaism) (See 正に・1) exact; precise; (given name) Motomu Right, correct; just, exact chief, principal; the first month. |
涅 see styles |
niè nie4 nieh ne |
(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black 湼 Black mud at the bottom of a pool; muddy; to blacken, defile; the first form is more correct, but the second is more common. |
祥 see styles |
xiáng xiang2 hsiang shou / sho しょう |
auspicious; propitious (1) omen (usu. good); (auspicious) sign; (2) (See 小祥,大祥) first two anniversaries of a person's death; (given name) Yoshimi Felicitous. |
端 see styles |
duān duan1 tuan hashi(p); haji; hana はし(P); はじ; はな |
end; extremity; item; port; to hold something level with both hands; to carry; regular (1) end (e.g. of street); tip; point; edge; margin; (2) beginning; start; first; (3) odds and ends; scrap; odd bit; least; (female given name) Mizuki Beginning, coming forth, elementary principles; a point either beginning or end; straight, proper. |
缶 see styles |
fǒu fou3 fou hotogi ほとぎ |
pottery (1) fat-bodied, small-mouthed earthenware jar for carrying water; (2) water vessel used for a baby's first bath; (surname) Hotogi |
肇 see styles |
zhào zhao4 chao hajime はじめ |
at first; devise; originate (given name) Hajime To begin, initiate. |
脩 修 see styles |
xiū xiu1 hsiu hisashi ひさし |
dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times); dried; withered (personal name) Hisashi to handle |
臈 腊 see styles |
là la4 la rou / ro ろう |
old variant of 臘|腊[la4] (1) {Buddh} year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat); (2) becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience The end of a Buddhist year; a Buddhist year; v. 臘. |
臘 腊 see styles |
là la4 la rou / ro ろう |
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month; the 12th lunar month; (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month (1) {Buddh} offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice; (2) twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar; (3) (See 臈) year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) Dried flesh; to sacrifice to the gods three days after the winter solstice; the end of the year; a year; a monastic year, i.e. the end of the annual summer retreat, also called 戒臘; 夏臘; 法臘. |
藏 see styles |
zàng zang4 tsang kura くら |
storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture (surname) Kura Treasury, thesaurus, store, to hide; the Canon. An intp. of piṭaka, a basket, box, granary, collection of writings. The 二藏 twofold canon may be the sutras and the vinaya; or the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna scriptures. The 三藏 or tripiṭaka consists of the sutras, vinaya, and śāstras (abhidharma). The 四藏 fourfold canon adds a miscellaneous collection. The 五藏 fivefold collection is sutras, vinaya, abhidharma, miscellaneous, and spells, or, instead of the spells, a bodhisattva collection. There is also an esoteric fivefold canon, the first three being the above, the last two being the prājñāpāramitā and the dhāraṇīs. |
蘊 蕴 see styles |
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. |
貪 贪 see styles |
tān tan1 t`an tan tan; ton; don たん; とん; どん |
to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy; corrupt (1) coveting; (2) {Buddh} (usu. とん) raga (desire) rāga; colouring, dyeing, tint, red; affection, passion, vehement longing or desire; cf. M. W. In Chinese: cupidity, desire; intp. tainted by and in bondage to the five desires; it is the first in order of the 五鈍使 pañca-kleśa q. v., and means hankering after, desire for, greed, which causes clinging to earthly life and things, therefore reincarnation. |
足 see styles |
zú zu2 tsu soku そく |
(bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully (counter) counter for pairs of socks, shoes, etc.; (given name) Mitsuru Foot, leg; enough, full.; A man's two legs, compared to goodness and wisdom, 福 being counted as the first five of the pāramitās, 智 as the sixth; v. 六度. 二足尊 The honoured one among bipeds or men, i. e. a Buddha; cf. 兩足. |
迿 see styles |
xùn xun4 hsün |
to be the first to begin a quarrel |
阿 see styles |
ē e1 o a あ |
(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with (1) (See 阿字・あじ) first Sanskrit alphabet letter; (2) (abbreviation) (See 阿弗利加・アフリカ) Africa; (3) (abbreviation) Awa (old province of Japan); (prefix) (4) (familiar language) (archaism) prefixed to names to show intimacy; (surname) Hodo M077477 羅陀補羅 Anurādhapura, a northern city of Ceylon, at which tradition says Buddhism was introduced into the island; cf. Abhayagiri, 阿跋.; M077477 樓馱 v. 阿那律Aniruddha.; a or ā, अ, आ. It is the first letter of the Sanskrit Siddham alphabet, and is also translit. by 曷, 遏, 安, 頞, 韻, 噁, etc. From it are supposed to be born all the other letters, and it is the first sound uttered by the human mouth. It has therefore numerous mystical indications. Being also a negation it symbolizes the unproduced, the impermanent, the immaterial; but it is employed in many ways indicative of the positive. Amongst other uses it indicates Amitābha, from the first syllable in that name. It is much in use for esoteric purposes. |
頭 头 see styles |
tou tou5 t`ou tou tou / to とう |
suffix for nouns (counter) counter for large animals (e.g. head of cattle); counter for insects in a collection; counter for helmets, masks, etc.; (personal name) Tsumuri The head; chief, first. |
首 see styles |
shǒu shou3 shou shu しゅ |
head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc (counter) counter for songs and poems; (personal name) Obito Head. |
魁 see styles |
kuí kui2 k`uei kuei rui るい |
chief; head; outstanding; exceptional; stalwart (noun/participle) charging ahead of others; the first to charge; pioneer; forerunner; harbinger; (female given name) Rui |
１Ｇ see styles |
wanjii / wanji ワンジー |
{telec} 1G; first generation (of wireless cellular technology) |
お初 see styles |
ohatsu おはつ |
(1) (polite language) doing something for the first time (ever, in a season, etc.); (2) new item; first crop of the season |
一二 see styles |
yī èr yi1 er4 i erh ichini いちに |
one or two; a few; a little; just a bit the first and second; a few; (female given name) Warutsu one or two |
一位 see styles |
kazunori かずのり |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) first place; first rank; unit's position; (2) (kana only) Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata); (male given name) Kazunori |
一品 see styles |
yī pǐn yi1 pin3 i p`in i pin ippin(p); hitoshina いっぴん(P); ひとしな |
superb; first-rate; (of officials in imperial times) the highest rank (1) item; article; (2) dish; course; (3) (いっぴん only) finest item; (place-name) Ippon (一品經) varga 跋渠; a chapter, or division (of a sūtra). |
一報 see styles |
ippou / ippo いっぽう |
(noun, transitive verb) (1) information; (brief) notice; letting someone know; dropping a line; (2) (See 第一報) first report; initial report |
一塁 see styles |
ichirui いちるい |
(1) (baseb) first base; (2) (baseb) (abbreviation) first baseman; (3) one fort |
一士 see styles |
hitoshi ひとし |
private first-class (JSDF); (male given name) Hitoshi |
一女 see styles |
ichijo いちじょ |
(1) one daughter; (2) (See 長女) eldest daughter; first-born daughter; (female given name) Hime |
一期 see styles |
yī qí yi1 qi2 i ch`i i chi ikki いっき |
(1) one term; one period; (2) first term; first period; (given name) Kazunori A date, fixed time; a life time. |
一校 see styles |
ikkou / ikko いっこう |
whole school; the first proof; one proofreading |
一現 see styles |
ichigen いちげん |
(irregular kanji usage) first visit to inn, restaurant, etc. without an introduction |
一白 see styles |
ippaku いっぱく |
(1) (See 九星) first of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mercury and north); (2) white patch on one foot of a horse; horse with such a patch; (3) surface (landscape) that is white all over; pure white; (given name) Kazushiro |
一直 see styles |
yī zhí yi1 zhi2 i chih icchoku いっちょく |
straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through {baseb} lining out to first base; (given name) Kazunao |
一眠 see styles |
ichimin いちみん |
the first sleep (of silkworms) |
一着 see styles |
icchaku いっちゃく |
(temporal noun) (1) first arrival; first in race; (2) suit of clothes |
一秘 see styles |
yī mì yi1 mi4 i mi |
first secretary |
一聲 一声 see styles |
yī shēng yi1 sheng1 i sheng |
first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) See: 一声 |
一號 一号 see styles |
yī hào yi1 hao4 i hao |
first day of the month; toilet; (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship) See: 一号 |
一血 see styles |
yī xuè yi1 xue4 i hsüeh |
(gaming) first blood |
一見 see styles |
ikken いっけん |
(noun/participle) (1) look; glimpse; glance; (adverb) (2) apparently; seemingly; at first glance; on the face of it; (noun/participle) (3) (archaism) first meeting; (surname, female given name) Hitomi |
一角 see styles |
ikkaku(p); ikkaku いっかく(P); イッカク |
(1) (いっかく only) corner; section; point; part; (2) (いっかく only) one horn; (3) pillar (of a group, system, etc.); member (of an organization, etc.); (4) {horse} first corner; (5) (kana only) narwhal (Monodon monoceros); (female given name) Kazumi |
一軍 see styles |
ichigun いちぐん |
(1) one army; whole army; (2) {sports} (See 二軍) first string players |
一輪 一轮 see styles |
yī lún yi1 lun2 i lun ichirin いちりん |
first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc) (1) one flower; (2) one wheel; (3) (archaism) full moon |
一階 see styles |
itsukai いつかい |
one floor; first floor; (surname) Itsukai |
一飛 see styles |
ichihi いちひ |
first fly |
一鼓 see styles |
ikko いっこ |
the first beat of the war drum |
七支 see styles |
qī zhī qi1 zhi1 ch`i chih chi chih shichishi |
The seven (spreading) branches—three sins of the body and four of speech, 身三 killing, robbing, adultery; 口四 lying, slander, abuse, double-tongue (or vain conversation). These are the first seven of the ten evils 十惡. |
七衆 七众 see styles |
qī zhòng qi1 zhong4 ch`i chung chi chung shichishu しちしゅ |
seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees) The seven classes of disciples:―(1)比丘 bhikṣu,monk;(2) bhikṣuṇī a female observer of all commandments; (3) 式叉摩那śikṣamāṇa, a novice, or observer of the six commandments; (4) 沙彌 śrāmaṇera, and (5) 沙彌尼 śrāmaṇerika, male and female observers of the minor commandments; (6) 優婆塞 upāsaka, male observers of the five commandments; and (7) 優婆夷upāsikā, female ditto. The first five have left home, the last two remain at home. Tiantai makes nine groups by dividing the last two into four, two remaining at home, two leaving home and keeping the eight commandments. Others make four groups, i.e. (1), (2), (6), and (7) of the above. Tiantai also has a four-group. |
七賢 七贤 see styles |
qī xián qi1 xian2 ch`i hsien chi hsien shichiken しちけん |
(1) (See 七賢人) the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects); (2) (See 竹林の七賢) Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (七賢位) Also七方便位, 七加行位 The seven grades or steps in virtue preceding the entry into見道faultless wisdom, or faultlessness in its first realization. These seven are preliminary to the七聖 (七聖位). Both are grades of the倶舍 Kośa school of Hīnayāna. |
三元 see styles |
sān yuán san1 yuan2 san yüan sangen さんげん |
(old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元[jie4 yuan2], metropolitan 會元|会元[hui4 yuan2] and palace 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2] (1) (See 上元,中元・1,下元) 15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months; (2) heaven, earth and man; (3) January 1; New Year's Day; (can act as adjective) (4) {chem} ternary; (female given name) Miyuki |
三惑 see styles |
sān huò san1 huo4 san huo sanwaku; sannaku さんわく; さんなく |
{Buddh} three mental disturbances A Tiantai classification of the three delusions, also styled 三煩惱; 三漏; 三垢; 三結; trials or temptations, leakages, uncleannesses, and bonds. The first of the following three is common to all disciples, the two last to bodhisattvas. They arise from (a) 見, 思, 惑 things seen and thought, i.e. illusions from imperfect perception, with temptation to love, hate, etc.; to be rid of these false views and temptations is the discipline and nirvāṇa of ascetic or Hīnayāna Buddhists. Mahāyāna proceeds further in and by its bodhisattva aims, which produce their own difficulties, i.e. (b) 塵沙惑 illusion and temptation through the immense variety of duties in saving men; and (c) 無明惑 illusions and temptations that arise from failure philosophically to understand things in their reality. |
三梵 see styles |
sān fàn san1 fan4 san fan sanbon |
The three Brahma heavens of the first dhyāna: that of 梵衆 Brahma-pāriṣadya, the assembly of Brahma; 梵輔 Brahma-purohitas, his attendants; 大梵 Mahābrahmā, Great Brahma. |
三照 see styles |
sān zhào san1 zhao4 san chao sanshō |
The three shinings; the sun first shining on the hill-tops, then the valleys and plains. So, according to Tiantai teaching of the Huayan sūtra, the Buddha's doctrine had three periods of such shining: (a) first, he taught the Huayan sūtra, transforming his chief disciples into bodhisattvas; (b) second, the Hīnayāna sūtras in general to śrāvakas and pratyeka-buddhas in the Lumbinī garden; (c) third, the 方等 sūtras down to the 涅槃經 for all the living. See the 六十華嚴經 35, where the order is five, i.e. bodhisattvas, pratyekabuddhas, śrāvakas, lay disciples, and all creatures. |
三空 see styles |
sān kōng san1 kong1 san k`ung san kung sankū |
The three voids or immaterialities. The first set of three is (a) 空, (b) 無相, (c) 無願, v. 三三昧. The second, (a) 我空 , (b) 法空 , (c) 倶空 the self, things, all phenomena as "empty" or immaterial. The third relates to charity: (a) giver, (b) receiver, (c) gift, all are "empty". |
三節 三节 see styles |
sān jié san1 jie2 san chieh sansetsu |
The three divisions of the 十二因緣 twelve nidānas, q.v.: (a) past, i.e. the first two; (b) present— the next eight; (c) future— the last two. |
三細 三细 see styles |
sān xì san1 xi4 san hsi sansai |
The three refined, or subtle conceptions, in contrast with the 六麤 cruder or common concepts, in the Awakening of Faith 起信論. The three are 無明業相 "ignorance", or the unenlightened condition, considered as in primal action, the stirring of the perceptive faculty; 能見相 ability to perceive phenomena; perceptive faculties; 境界相 the object perceived, or the empirical world. The first is associated with the 體corpus or substance, the second and third with function, but both must have co-existence, e.g. water and waves. v. 六麤. |
三自 see styles |
sān zì san1 zi4 san tzu sanji |
abbr. for 三自愛國教會|三自爱国教会[San1 zi4 Ai4 guo2 Jiao4 hui4], Three-Self Patriotic Movement Three divisions of the eight-fold noble path, the first to the third 自調 self-control, the fourth and fifth 自淨 self-purification, the last three 自度 self-development in the religious life and in wisdom. Also 自體, 自相, 自用 substance, form, and function. |
三覆 三复 see styles |
sān fù san1 fu4 san fu mitsubuchi みつぶち |
(personal name) Mitsubuchi denote a day in each of the first, fifth, and ninth months when the recording angels of the four Lokapālas report on the conduct of each individual. See also 三覆八校. |
三覺 三觉 see styles |
sān jué san1 jue2 san chüeh sankaku |
The three kinds of enlightenment: (1) (a) 自覺 Enlightenment for self; (b) 覺他 for others; (c) 覺行圓 (or 窮) 滿 perfect enlightenment and accomplishment; the first is an arhat's, the first and second a bodhisattva's, all three a Buddha's. (2) From the Awakening of Faith 起信論 (a) 本覺 inherent, potential enlightenment or intelligence of every being; (b) 始覺 , initial, or early stages of such enlightenment, brought about through the external perfuming or influence of teaching, working on the internal perfuming of subconscious intelligence; (c) 究竟覺 completion of enlightenment, the subjective mind in perfect accord with the subconscious (or superconscious) mind, or the inherent intelligence. |
三變 三变 see styles |
sān biàn san1 bian4 san pien sanpen |
(土田) The three transformations of his Buddha-realm made by Śākyamuni on the Vulture peak—- first, his revelation of this world, then its vast extension, and again its still vaster extension. See Lotus Sutra. |
三革 see styles |
sankaku さんかく |
(1) (rare) armor, helmet and shield (armour); (2) (See 陰陽道) kakurei, kakuun and kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) |
上下 see styles |
shàng xià shang4 xia4 shang hsia jouge / joge じょうげ |
up and down; top and bottom; old and young; length; about (1) top and bottom; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends; up and down; (n,vs,vi) (2) going up and down; rising and falling; fluctuating; (n,vs,vi) (3) going and coming back; (4) upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled; the government and the people; (5) first and second volumes; (6) {cloth} top and bottom; two-piece (outfit); (place-name, surname) Jōge above and below |
上乘 see styles |
shàng chéng shang4 cheng2 shang ch`eng shang cheng jōjō |
first-class; best quality; also pr. [shang4 sheng4] Mahāyāna; also 上衍, 大乘 q. v. |
上個 上个 see styles |
shàng ge shang4 ge5 shang ko |
first (of two parts); last (week etc); previous; the above |
上元 see styles |
shàng yuán shang4 yuan2 shang yüan jougen / jogen じょうげん |
15th day of the 1st lunar month; (surname) Kamimoto The fifteenth of the first moon. See 孟蘭盆. |
上刻 see styles |
joukoku / jokoku じょうこく |
first third of a two-hour period |
上卷 see styles |
shàng juǎn shang4 juan3 shang chüan jōkan |
first roll |
上句 see styles |
shàng jù shang4 ju4 shang chü kamiku かみく |
(See 上の句) first part of a poem; first part of a verse the supreme sentence |
上好 see styles |
shàng hǎo shang4 hao3 shang hao ueyoshi うえよし |
first-rate; top-notch (surname) Ueyoshi |
上宿 see styles |
jouyado / joyado じょうやど |
first-class inn; (place-name) Kamijuku |
上巻 see styles |
joukan / jokan じょうかん |
(See 下巻,中巻) first volume (in a two or three-volume set); first book; volume one; book one; (surname) Uemaki |
上座 see styles |
shàng zuò shang4 zuo4 shang tso kamiza; jouza / kamiza; joza かみざ; じょうざ |
seat of honor (n,vs,adj-no) chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table; (place-name) Jōza Sthavira; or Mahāsthavira. Old man, or elder; head monk, president, or abbot; the first Buddhist fathers; a title of Mahākāśyapa; also of monks of twenty to forty-nine years standing, as 中座 are from ten to nineteen and 下座 under ten. The 釋氏要覽 divides presiding elders into four classes, those presiding over monasteries, over assemblies of monks, over sects, and laymen presiding over feasts to monks. |
上期 see styles |
shàng qī shang4 qi1 shang ch`i shang chi kamiki かみき |
previous period (week, month or quarter etc) (See 下期) first half of the (fiscal) year |
上浣 see styles |
shàng huàn shang4 huan4 shang huan |
first ten days of a lunar month |
上略 see styles |
jouryaku / joryaku じょうりゃく |
(n,vs,vi) first paragraphs omitted |
上白 see styles |
jouhaku / johaku じょうはく |
first-class rice |
上篇 see styles |
jouhen / johen じょうへん |
first volume |
上米 see styles |
joumai / jomai じょうまい |
first-class rice; (surname) Uekome |
上編 see styles |
jouhen / johen じょうへん |
first volume |
上首 see styles |
shàng shǒu shang4 shou3 shang shou joushu / joshu じょうしゅ |
seat of honor; first place chief; leader; guide President, or presiding elders. |
下す see styles |
kudasu くだす orosu おろす |
(transitive verb) (1) to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; (2) to judge; to hand down a verdict; to pass sentence; (3) to let go down; to lower; (4) to do oneself; to do by oneself; (5) to beat; to defeat; (6) to have loose bowels; to have diarrhea; to pass excrement; (irregular okurigana usage) (transitive verb) (1) to take down (e.g. flag); to launch (e.g. boat); to drop; to lower (e.g. ladder); to let (a person) off; to unload; to discharge; (2) to drop off (a passenger from a vehicle); to let (a person) off; (3) to withdraw money from an account; (4) to wear (clothing) for the first time; (5) to fillet (e.g. a fish) |
下地 see styles |
xià dì xia4 di4 hsia ti shitaji したじ |
to go down to the fields; to get up from bed; to leave one's sickbed; to be born (1) groundwork; foundation; (2) inclination; aptitude; elementary knowledge (of); grounding (in); (3) undercoat; first coat; (4) (See お下地) soy sauce; (surname) Shimoji The lower regions of the 九地 q. v.; also the lower half of the 十地 in the fifty-two grades of bodhisattva development. |
下貼 see styles |
shitabari したばり |
undercoat; first coat |
不生 see styles |
bù shēng bu4 sheng1 pu sheng fushou / fusho ふしょう |
(place-name) Fushou anutpatti; anutpāda. Non-birth: not to be reborn, exempt from rebirth; arhan is mistakenly interpreted as 'not born', meaning not born again into mortal worlds. The 'nir' in nirvana is also erroneously said to mean 'not born'; certain schools say that nothing ever has been born, or created, for all is eternal. The Shingon word 'a' is interpreted as symbolizing the uncreated. The unborn or uncreated is a name for the Tathāgata, who is not born, but eternal ; hence by implication the term means "eternal". ādi, which means"at first, " "beginning","primary", is also interpreted as 不生 uncreated. |
両次 see styles |
ryouji / ryoji りょうじ |
(adj-no,n) (rare) two (times); first and second (e.g. world wars); (given name) Ryōji |
中１ see styles |
chuuichi / chuichi ちゅういち |
first year (pupil) in junior middle school; second year (pupil) in lower secondary school |
中一 see styles |
nakaichi なかいち |
first year (pupil) in junior middle school; second year (pupil) in lower secondary school; (surname) Nakaichi |
中入 see styles |
nakairi なかいり |
(irregular okurigana usage) (noun/participle) (1) intermission during a performance (e.g. variety show, play, sumo, etc.); (2) temporary departure of an actor (between the first and second halves of a noh or kyogen performance, during which time they change costumes, etc.); (surname) Nakairi |
中因 see styles |
zhōng yīn zhong1 yin1 chung yin chūin |
An arrangement by the esoteric sect of the Five Dhyāni-Buddhas, Vairocana being the first in position, Akṣobhya east, and so on. |
中宗 see styles |
zhōng zōng zhong1 zong1 chung tsung nakamune なかむね |
(surname) Nakamune The school or principle of the mean, represented by the 法相宗 Dharmalakṣaṇa school, which divides the Buddha's teaching into three periods, the first in which he preached 有 existence, the second 空 non-existence, the third 中 neither, something 'between' or above them, e. g. a realm of pure spirit, vide the 深密經 Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra and the Lotus Sutra. |
中論 中论 see styles |
zhōng lùn zhong1 lun4 chung lun Chūron |
中觀論 Prāñnyāya-mūla-śāstra-ṭīkā, or Prāṇyamula-śāstra-ṭīkā; the Mādhyamika-śāstra, attributed to the bodhisattvas Nāgārjuna as creator, and Nīlacakṣus as compiler; tr. by Kumārajīva A. D. 409. It is the principal work of the Mādhyamika, or Middle School, attributed to Nāgārjuna. Versions only exist in Chinese and Tibetan; an English translation by Miyamoto exists and publication is promised; a German version is by Walleser. The 中論 is the first and most?? important of the 三論 q. v. The teaching of this School is found additionally in the 順中論; 般若燈論釋大乘中觀釋論 and 中論疏. Cf. 中道. The doctrine opposes the rigid categories of existence and non-existence 假 and 空, and denies the two extremes of production (or creation) and nonproduction and other antitheses, in the interests of a middle or superior way. |
主位 see styles |
shui しゅい |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) first place; head position; leading position |
主席 see styles |
zhǔ xí zhu3 xi2 chu hsi shuseki しゅせき |
chairperson; premier; chairman; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) head; chief; (2) chairman; governor; president; (3) top seat; first desk (in orchestra) |
乍看 see styles |
zhà kàn zha4 kan4 cha k`an cha kan |
at first glance |
九劫 see styles |
jiǔ jié jiu3 jie2 chiu chieh ku kō |
The nine kalpas; though Śākyamuni and Maitreya started together, the zeal of the first enabled him to become Buddha nine kalpas sooner; see 大賓積經 111. |
九地 see styles |
jiǔ dì jiu3 di4 chiu ti kyuuchi / kyuchi きゅうち |
very low land; (surname) Kuji The nine lands, i.e. the 欲界 realm of desire or sensuous realm the four 色界 realms of form or material forms; and the four 無色界 formless realms, or realms beyond form; v. 九有, 九有情居, 禪 and 定. The nine realms are:—(1) 欲界五趣地; the desire realm with its five gati, i.e. hells, hungry ghosts, animals, men, and devas. In the four form-realms are:— (2) 離生喜樂地 Paradise after earthly life, this is also the first dhyāna, or subject of meditation, 初禪. (3) 定生喜樂地 Paradise of cessation of rebirth, 二禪. (4) 離喜妙樂地 Land of wondrous joy after the previous joys, 三禪. (5) 捨念淸淨地 The Pure Land of abandonment of thought, or recollection (of past delights), 四禪. The four formless, or infinite realms, catur arūpa dhātu, are:—(6) 空無邊處地 ākāśānantyā-yatanam, the land of infinite space; also the first samādhi, 第一定. (7) 識無邊處地 vijñānānamtyāyatanam, the land of omniscience, or infinite perception, 二定. (8) 無所有處地 ākiñcanyāyatana, the land of nothingness, 三定. (9) 非想非非想處地 naivasaṁjñānā-saṁjñāyatana, the land (of knowledge) without thinking or not thinking, or where there is neither consciousness nor unconsciousness, i.e. above either; this is the 四定. Eitel says that in the last four, "Life lasts 20,000 great kalpas in the 1st, 40,000 in the 2nd, 60,000 in the 3rd, and 80,000 great kalpas in the 4th of these heavens." |
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