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千萬


千万

see styles
qiān wàn
    qian1 wan4
ch`ien wan
    chien wan
 chima
    ちま
ten million; countless; many; one must by all means
(female given name) Chima
myriad[s]

占察

see styles
zhàn chá
    zhan4 cha2
chan ch`a
    chan cha
 senzatsu
A method of divination in the esoteric school by means of the Sanskrit letter 'a'.

口風


口风

see styles
kǒu fēng
    kou3 feng1
k`ou feng
    kou feng
meaning behind the words; what sb really means to say; one's intentions as revealed in one's words; tone of speech

只管

see styles
zhǐ guǎn
    zhi3 guan3
chih kuan
 koreuchi
    これうち
solely engrossed in one thing; just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest); simply; by all means; please feel free; do not hesitate (to ask for something)
(adj-na,adv) (kana only) nothing but; earnest; intent; determined; set on (something); (personal name) Koreuchi

同體


同体

see styles
tóng tǐ
    tong2 ti3
t`ung t`i
    tung ti
 dōtei
Of the same body, or nature, as water and wave, but同體慈悲 means fellow-feeling and compassion, looking on all sympathetically as of the same nature as oneself.

咨請


咨请

see styles
zī qǐng
    zi1 qing3
tzu ch`ing
    tzu ching
to formally request (by means of an official communication 咨文[zi1 wen2])

哀勸


哀劝

see styles
āi quàn
    ai1 quan4
ai ch`üan
    ai chüan
to persuade by all possible means; to implore

囘向


回向

see styles
huí xiàng
    hui2 xiang4
hui hsiang
 ekō
迴向 pariṇāmanā. To turn towards; to turn something from one person or thing to another; transference of merit); the term is intp. by 轉趣 turn towards; it is used for works of supererogation, or rather, it means the bestowing on another, or others, of merits acquired by oneself, especially the merits acquired by a bodhisattva or Buddha for the salvation of all, e. g. the bestowing of his merits by Amitābha on all the living. There are other kinds, such as the turning of acquired merit to attain further progress in bodhi, or nirvana. 囘事向理 to turn (from) practice to theory; 囘自向他 to turn from oneself to another; 囘因向果 To turn from cause to effect. 囘世而向出世 to turn from this world to what is beyond this world, from the worldly to the unworldly.

四依

see styles
sì yī
    si4 yi1
ssu i
 shi e
The four necessaries, or things on which the religious rely. (1) 行四依 The four of ascetic practitioners— rag clothing; begging for food; sitting under trees; purgatives and diuretics as moral and spiritual means; these are also termed 四聖種. (2) 法四依 The four of the dharma: i. e. the truth, which is eternal, rather than man, even its propagator; the sutras of perfect meaning i. e. of the 道實相 the truth of the 'middle' way; the meaning, or spirit, not the letter; wisdom 智, i.e. Buddha-wisdom rather than mere knowledge 識. There are other groups. Cf. 四事.

四道

see styles
sì dào
    si4 dao4
ssu tao
 shimichi
    しみち
(surname) Shimichi
The Dao or road means the nirvana road; the 'four' are rather modes of progress, or stages in it: (1) 加行道 discipline or effort, i. e. progress from the 三賢 and 四善根 stages to that of the 三學位, i. e. morality, meditation, and understanding; (2) 無間道 uninterrupted progress to the stage in which all delusion is banished; (3) 解脫道 liberaton, or freedom, reaching the state of assurance or proof and knowledge of the truth; and (4) 勝進道 surpassing progress in dhyāni-wisdom. Those four stages are also associated with those of srota-āpanna, sakṛdāgāmin, anāgāmin, and arhat.

外乞

see styles
wài qǐ
    wai4 qi3
wai ch`i
    wai chi
 gekotsu
The mendicant monk who seeks self-control by external means, e. g. abstinence from food, as contrasted with the 内乞 who seeks it by spiritual methods.

多羅


多罗

see styles
duō luó
    duo1 luo2
to lo
 tara
    たら
(1) (abbreviation) (See 多羅樹) palmyra; (2) (abbreviation) (See 多羅葉) lusterleaf holly; (3) patra (silver incense dish placed in front of a Buddhist statue); (surname, female given name) Tara
tārā, in the sense of starry, or scintillation; Tāla, for the fan-palm; Tara, from 'to pass over', a ferry, etc. Tārā, starry, piercing, the eye, the pupil; the last two are both Sanskrit and Chinese definitions; it is a term applied to certain female deities and has been adopted especially by Tibetan Buddhism for certain devīs of the Tantric school. The origin of the term is also ascribed to tar meaning 'to cross', i. e. she who aids to cross the sea of mortality. Getty, 19-27. The Chinese derivation is the eye; the tara devīs; either as śakti or independent, are little known outside Lamaism. Tāla is the palmyra, or fan-palm, whose leaves are used for writing and known as 具多 Pei-to, pattra. The tree is described as 70 or 80 feet high, with fruit like yellow rice-seeds; the borassus eabelliformis; a measure of 70 feet. Taras, from to cross over, also means a ferry, and a bank, or the other shore. Also 呾囉.

大教

see styles
dà jiào
    da4 jiao4
ta chiao
 daikyō
The great teaching. (1) That of the Buddha. (2) Tantrayāna. The mahātantra, yoga, yogacarya, or tantra school which claims Samantabhadra as its founder. It aims at ecstatic union of the individual soul with the world soul, Iśvara. From this result the eight great powers of Siddhi (aṣṭa-mahāsiddhi), namely, ability to (1) make one's body lighter (laghiman); (2) heavier (gaiman); (3) smaller (aṇiman); (4) larger (mahiman) than anything in the world ; (5) reach any place (prāpti) ; (6) assume any shape (prākāmya) ; (7) control all natural laws (īśitva) ; (8) make everything depend upon oneself; all at will (v.如意身 and 神足). By means of mystic formulas (Tantras or dhāraṇīs), or spells (mantras), accompanied by music and manipulation of the hands (mūdra), a state of mental fixity characterized neither by thought nor the annihilation of thought, can be reached. This consists of six-fold bodily and mental happiness (yoga), and from this results power to work miracles. Asaṅga compiled his mystic doctrines circa A.D. 500. The system was introduced into China A.D. 647 by Xuanzang's translation of the Yogācārya-bhūmi-śāstra 瑜伽師地論 ; v. 瑜. On the basis of this, Amoghavajra established the Chinese branch of the school A.D. 720 ; v. 阿目. This was popularized by the labours of Vajrabodhi A.D. 732 ; v. 金剛智.

妊活

see styles
 ninkatsu
    にんかつ
(noun/participle) (abbreviation) (colloquialism) (abbrev. of 妊娠活動) trying to conceive; attempting to get pregnant (through various means)

姦雄


奸雄

see styles
jiān xióng
    jian1 xiong2
chien hsiung
person who seeks advancement by any means; career climber; unscrupulous careerist

婆訶


婆诃

see styles
pó hē
    po2 he1
p`o ho
    po ho
 baka
vāha; it means bearing, carrying, a beast of burden, but is used in the sense of a large grain-container of twenty bushels 斛; supernatural life, or adbhuta, is compared to a vāha full of hemp seed, from which one seed is withdrawn every century. Also婆訶摩.

宗風


宗风

see styles
zōng fēng
    zong1 feng1
tsung feng
 shuufuu / shufu
    しゅうふう
(1) {Buddh} customs of a sect; doctrine; (2) style of a school (e.g. of art)
The customs or traditions of a sect. In the Chan sect it means the regulations of the founder.

小乘

see styles
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.

小道

see styles
xiǎo dào
    xiao3 dao4
hsiao tao
 komichi
    こみち
bypath; trail; bribery as a means of achieving a goal; minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman)
path; lane; (surname) Komichi
lesser path

工具

see styles
gōng jù
    gong1 ju4
kung chü
 kougu / kogu
    こうぐ
tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)
tool; implement

已上

see styles
yǐ shàng
    yi3 shang4
i shang
 ijō
    いじょう
(n-adv,n-t) (1) not less than; ... and more; ... and upwards; (2) beyond ... (e.g. one's means); further (e.g. nothing further to say); more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that); (3) above-mentioned; foregoing; (4) since ...; seeing that ...; (5) this is all; that is the end; the end
...and above

平更

see styles
 hirasara
    ひらさら
(adverb) (1) (kana only) (archaism) earnestly; intently; determinedly; by all means; (adverb) (2) (kana only) (archaism) (See 一体全体・いったいぜんたい) ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?")

弦歌

see styles
xián gē
    xian2 ge1
hsien ko
 genka
    げんか
to sing to a string accompaniment; education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times)
singing and (string) music

径路

see styles
 keiro / kero
    けいろ
(1) course; route; path; channel; (2) process; means

徑跡


径迹

see styles
jìng jì
    jing4 ji4
ching chi
track; trajectory; path; way; means; diameter; directly

心緣


心缘

see styles
xīn yuán
    xin1 yuan2
hsin yüan
 shinen
Mental cognition of the environment; to lay hold of external things by means of the mind.

意即

see styles
yì jí
    yi4 ji2
i chi
which means; (this) means (that)

感生

see styles
gǎn shēng
    gan3 sheng1
kan sheng
 kanshō
(mythology) to conceive or give birth by non-sexual or divine means; (physics) induced (magnetic field, current etc)
bring about birth

憑借


凭借

see styles
píng jiè
    ping2 jie4
p`ing chieh
    ping chieh
to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; something that one relies on

憑藉


凭藉

see styles
píng jiè
    ping2 jie4
p`ing chieh
    ping chieh
to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; something that one relies on; also written 憑借|凭借[ping2 jie4]

憑靠


凭靠

see styles
píng kào
    ping2 kao4
p`ing k`ao
    ping kao
to use; to rely on; by means of

應化


应化

see styles
yìng huà
    ying4 hua4
ying hua
 ōke
nirmāṇa means formation, with Buddhists transformation, or incarnation. Responsive incarnation, or manifestation, in accordance with the nature or needs of different beings.

手下

see styles
shǒu xià
    shou3 xia4
shou hsia
 tega
    てが
under one's control or administration; subordinates; (money etc) on hand; sb's financial means; when taking action
subordinate; underling; henchman; minion; (surname) Tega

手練

see styles
 teren
    てれん
means of deceiving another

才不

see styles
cái bù
    cai2 bu4
ts`ai pu
    tsai pu
by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right!

持駒

see styles
 mochigoma
    もちごま
(1) (shogi) captured piece that can be reused; (2) person or object held in reserve; available means

撈取


捞取

see styles
lāo qǔ
    lao1 qu3
lao ch`ü
    lao chü
to dredge up; to scoop up from the water; to fish for; to gain (by improper means)

撈錢


捞钱

see styles
lāo qián
    lao1 qian2
lao ch`ien
    lao chien
lit. to dredge for money; to make money by reprehensible means; to fish for a quick buck

擇滅


择灭

see styles
zé miè
    ze2 mie4
tse mieh
 chakumetsu
pratisaṃkhyānirodha. nirvāṇa as a result of 擇 discrimination, the elimination of desire by means of mind and will.

敬田

see styles
jìng tián
    jing4 tian2
ching t`ien
    ching tien
 kyōden
The field of reverence, i.e. worship and support of the Buddha, dharma, and saṃgha as a means to obtain blessing.

方便

see styles
fāng biàn
    fang1 bian4
fang pien
 houben / hoben
    ほうべん
convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself
(1) means; expedient; instrument; (2) {Buddh} upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching); (surname) Houben
upāya. Convenient to the place, or situation, suited to the condition, opportune, appropriate; but 方 is interpreted as 方法 method, mode, plan, and 便 as 便用 convenient for use, i. e. a convenient or expedient method; also 方 as 方正 and 便 as 巧妙, which implies strategically correct. It is also intp. as 權道智 partial, temporary, or relative (teaching of) knowledge of reality, in contrast with 般若智 prajñā, and 眞實 absolute truth, or reality instead of the seeming. The term is a translation of 傴和 upāya, a mode of approach, an expedient, stratagem, device. The meaning is— teaching according to the capacity of the hearer, by any suitable method, including that of device or stratagem, but expedience beneficial to the recipient is understood. Mahāyāna claims that the Buddha used this expedient or partial method in his teaching until near the end of his days, when he enlarged it to the revelation of reality, or the preaching of his final and complete truth; Hīnayāna with reason denies this, and it is evident that the Mahāyāna claim has no foundation, for the whole of its 方等 or 方廣 scriptures are of later invention. Tiantai speaks of the 三乘 q. v. or Three Vehicles as 方便 expedient or partial revelations, and of its 一乘 or One Vehicle as the complete revelation of universal Buddhahood. This is the teaching of the Lotus Sutra, which itself contains 方便 teaching to lead up to the full revelation; hence the terms 體内 (or 同體 ) 方便, i. e. expedient or partial truths within the full revelation, meaning the expedient part of the Lotus, and 體外方便 the expedient or partial truths of the teaching which preceded the Lotus; see the 方便品 of that work, also the second chapter of the 維摩經. 方便 is also the seventh of the ten pāramitās.

方法

see styles
fāng fǎ
    fang1 fa3
fang fa
 houhou / hoho
    ほうほう
method; way; technique; procedure; CL:個|个[ge4]
method; way; manner; process; procedure; means; measure
a method

方策

see styles
fāng cè
    fang1 ce4
fang ts`e
    fang tse
 housaku / hosaku
    ほうさく
strategy; policy; general plan; variant of 方冊|方册[fang1 ce4]
plan; measure; means; scheme; policy; (given name) Housaku
method

方術


方术

see styles
fāng shù
    fang1 shu4
fang shu
 houjutsu / hojutsu
    ほうじゅつ
arts of healing, divination, horoscope etc; supernatural arts (old)
means; method; art; magic

方角

see styles
fāng jué
    fang1 jue2
fang chüeh
 hougaku / hogaku
    ほうがく
(1) direction; way; (2) (See 方位) point of the compass; cardinal direction; bearing; (3) method; means; approach
direction

方途

see styles
 houto / hoto
    ほうと
way; means

旁生

see styles
páng shēng
    pang2 sheng1
p`ang sheng
    pang sheng
 bōshō
傍生 Rebirth as an animal. In some parts of China 旁生 means the next life.

有漏

see styles
yǒu lòu
    you3 lou4
yu lou
 uro
āsrava, means 'outflow, discharge'; 'distress, pain, affliction'; it is intp. by 煩惱 kleśa, the passions, distress, trouble, which in turn is intp. as 惑 delusion. Whatever has kleśa, i. e. distress or trouble, is 有漏; all things are of this nature, hence it means whatever is in the stream of births-and-deaths, and also means mortal life or births-and-deaths, i. e. mortality as contrasted with 無漏, which is nirvāṇa.

有賴


有赖

see styles
yǒu lài
    you3 lai4
yu lai
(of an outcome) to rely on; to require; can only be achieved by means of

末那

see styles
mò nà
    mo4 na4
mo na
 mana
    まな
{Buddh} (See 末那識) manas (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self)
manāḥ; manas; intp. by 意 mind, the (active) mind. Eitel says: 'The sixth of the chadâyatana, the mental faculty which constitutes man as an intelligent and moral being. ' The 末那識 is defined by the 唯識論 4 as the seventh of the 八識, namely 意, which means 思量 thinking and measuring, or calculating. It is the active mind, or activity of mind, but is also used for the mind itself.

本末

see styles
běn mò
    ben3 mo4
pen mo
 motosue
    もとすえ
the whole course of an event from beginning to end; ins and outs; the fundamental and the incidental
essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end; (surname) Motosue
Root and twigs, root and branch, first and last, beginning and end, etc.

本身

see styles
běn shēn
    ben3 shen1
pen shen
 honmi
    ほんみ
itself; in itself; per se
real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice sword)
oneself; it also means 本心 the inner self.

本錢


本钱

see styles
běn qián
    ben3 qian2
pen ch`ien
    pen chien
capital; (fig.) asset; advantage; the means (to do something)

権道

see styles
 gondou / gondo
    ごんどう
inappropriate means to a worthy end; expediency; (surname) Gondō

歃血

see styles
shà xuè
    sha4 xue4
sha hsüeh
to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)

毒牙

see styles
dú yá
    du2 ya2
tu ya
 dokuga
    どくが
venomous fang
(1) poison fang; (2) (See 毒牙にかかる・どくがにかかる) sinister ways; crooked means; clutches; wily ways; dirty trick

法兒


法儿

see styles
fǎ r
    fa3 r5
fa r
way; method; means; Taiwan pr. [fa1 r5]

法術


法术

see styles
fǎ shù
    fa3 shu4
fa shu
 houjutsu / hojutsu
    ほうじゅつ
magic
(1) practising law; (2) legal processes in running a country; (3) (See 方術) method; way; means; (4) (See 方術) magic

波耶

see styles
bō yé
    bo1 ye2
po yeh
 haya
payas, water; in Sanskrit it also means milk, juice, vital force.

活路

see styles
huó lu
    huo2 lu5
huo lu
 katsuro
    かつろ
labor; physical work
means of survival; means of escape; way out of a difficulty
living path

流露

see styles
liú lù
    liu2 lu4
liu lu
 ryuuro / ryuro
    りゅうろ
to reveal (indirectly, implicitly); to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc
(n,vs,vt,vi) revelation; outpouring

渠道

see styles
qú dào
    qu2 dao4
ch`ü tao
    chü tao
irrigation ditch; (fig.) channel; means

漚和


沤和

see styles
òu hé
    ou4 he2
ou ho
 ōwa
expedient means

潜脱

see styles
 sendatsu
    せんだつ
(noun/participle) circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)

炒信

see styles
chǎo xìn
    chao3 xin4
ch`ao hsin
    chao hsin
(of a business operator) to inflate one's reputation by dishonest means (e.g. posting fake reviews)

無以


无以

see styles
wú yǐ
    wu2 yi3
wu i
 mui
no means of...

無明


无明

see styles
wú míng
    wu2 ming2
wu ming
 mumyou / mumyo
    むみょう
avidya (Buddhism); ignorance; delusion
{Buddh} avidya (ignorance)
avidyā, ignorance, and in some senses Māyā, illusion; it is darkness without illumination, the ignorance which mistakes seeming for being, or illusory phenomena for realities; it is also intp. as 痴 ignorant, stupid, fatuous; but it means generally, unenlightened, unillumined. The 起信論 distinguishes two kinds as 根本: the radical, fundamental, original darkness or ignorance considered as a 無始無明 primal condition, and 枝末 'branch and twig' conditions, considered as phenomenal. There is also a list of fifteen distinctions in the Vibhāṣā-śāstra 2. avidyā is also the first, or last of the twelve nidānas.; Commonly tr. 'ignorance', means an unenlightened condition, non-perception, before the stirrings of intelligence, belief that the phenomenal is real, etc.

無策

see styles
 musaku
    むさく
(n,adj-no,adj-na) lack of policy; having no measures; lacking means

無表


无表

see styles
wú biǎo
    wu2 biao3
wu piao
 muhyō
avijñapti. Unconscious, latent, not expressed, subjective, e.g. 'the taking of a religious vow impresses on a man's character a peculiar bent,' Keith. This is internal and not visible to others. It has a 'quasi-material' basis styled 無表色 or 無作色 which has power to resist evil. It is the Sarvāstivādin view, though certain other schools repudiated the material basis and defined it as mental. This invisible power may be both for good and evil, and may perhaps be compared to 'animal magnetism' or hypnotic powers. It means occult: power whether for higher spiritual ends or for base purposes.

營謀


营谋

see styles
yíng móu
    ying2 mou2
ying mou
to do business; to manage; to strive for; to use every possible means (toward a goal)

燻煙

see styles
 kunen
    くんえん
smoking (esp. as a means of preserving food)

爪牙

see styles
zhǎo yá
    zhao3 ya2
chao ya
 souga / soga
    そうが
pawn; lackey; accomplice (in crime); collaborator; henchman; claws and teeth
(1) claws and fangs; claws and tusks; (2) clutches; devious design; means of causing harm; weapon; (3) pawn; stooge; cat's-paw; (4) right-hand man

牟利

see styles
móu lì
    mou2 li4
mou li
to gain profit (by underhand means); to exploit; exploitation

牟取

see styles
móu qǔ
    mou2 qu3
mou ch`ü
    mou chü
to gain profit (by underhand means); to exploit; see also 謀取|谋取[mou2 qu3]

理入

see styles
lǐ rù
    li3 ru4
li ju
 rinyū
Entry by the truth, or by means of the doctrine, or reason, as 行入 is entry by conduct or practice, the two depending one on the other, cf. 二入.

百般

see styles
bǎi bān
    bai3 ban1
pai pan
 hyappan
    ひゃっぱん
in hundred and one ways; in every possible way; by every means
(noun - becomes adjective with の) all; every; all kinds of

百計

see styles
 hyakkei / hyakke
    ひゃっけい
all means

真平

see styles
 mahira
    まひら
(adverb) (kana only) (not) by any means; (not) for anything; humbly; sincerely; (personal name) Mahira

石焼

see styles
 ishiyaki
    いしやき
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) porcelain; (2) baking by means of hot stones or pebbles

禮樂


礼乐

see styles
lǐ yuè
    li3 yue4
li yüeh
(Confucianism) rites and music (the means of regulating society)

筆談


笔谈

see styles
bǐ tán
    bi3 tan2
pi t`an
    pi tan
 hitsudan
    ひつだん
to communicate by means of written notes (instead of speaking); to publish one's opinion (e.g. as part of a scholarly dialogue); (in book titles) essays; sketches
(n,vs,vi) communicating in writing

筏喩

see styles
fá yù
    fa2 yu4
fa yü
 batsuyu
Raft parable. Buddha's teaching is like a raft, a means of crossing the river, the raft being left when the crossing has been made.

算段

see styles
 sandan
    さんだん
(noun, transitive verb) (1) trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do); (noun, transitive verb) (2) contriving (to raise money); managing

管道

see styles
guǎn dào
    guan3 dao4
kuan tao
tubing; pipeline; (fig.) channel; means

範衞


范衞

see styles
fàn wèi
    fan4 wei4
fan wei
 hani
Rule and restraint; to guard by proper means.

紙花


纸花

see styles
zhǐ huā
    zhi3 hua1
chih hua
 kamibana
    かみばな
paper flower
(1) paper flowers; (2) (archaism) paper flowers for a funeral; (3) paper handed out as a means of congratulations in a red light district (as a promise of a future money donation)

細腕

see styles
 hosoude / hosode
    ほそうで
(1) thin arm; slender arm; (2) slender means; meager ability to earn a living

経路

see styles
 keiro / kero
    けいろ
(1) course; route; path; channel; (2) process; means

考證


考证

see styles
kǎo zhèng
    kao3 zheng4
k`ao cheng
    kao cheng
to do textual research; to make textual criticism; to verify by means of research (esp. historical details); to take an exam to get a certificate (abbr. for 考取證件|考取证件[kao3 qu3 zheng4 jian4])

聚斂


聚敛

see styles
jù liǎn
    ju4 lian3
chü lien
 shuuren / shuren
    しゅうれん
to accumulate; to gather; to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means; (science) convergent
(noun/participle) (levying of a) heavy taxation

自恣

see styles
zì zì
    zi4 zi4
tzu tzu
 jishi
pravārana, to follow one's own bent, the modern term being 隨意; it means the end of restraint, i. e. following the period of retreat.

英学

see styles
 eigaku / egaku
    えいがく
(1) study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation); (2) English literature; British studies; (given name) Eigaku

薄產


薄产

see styles
bó chǎn
    bo2 chan3
po ch`an
    po chan
meager estate; small means

藉由


借由

see styles
jiè yóu
    jie4 you2
chieh yu
by means of; through; by

藉著


借着

see styles
jiè zhe
    jie4 zhe5
chieh che
by means of; through; with the help of

血路

see styles
xuè lù
    xue4 lu4
hsüeh lu
 ketsuro
    けつろ
desperate getaway (from a battlefield); to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield
way out; means of escape

裏道

see styles
 uramichi
    うらみち
(1) back lane; byway; back street; (2) unfair means; dishonest means; (surname) Uramichi

試筋

see styles
 tamesuji
    ためすじ
patron; effective means

詭道

see styles
 kidou / kido
    きどう
deceptive methods; questionable means

詮方

see styles
 senkata
    せんかた
required means

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

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