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    di4
ti
 dai
    だい
(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4-liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
(prefix) prefix for forming ordinal numbers
Number, degree, sign of the ordinals; only.

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    ce4
ts`e
    tse
 hakaru
    はかる
policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
(n,n-suf) (1) plan; policy; means; measure; stratagem; scheme; (2) (See 永字八法) fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick; (male given name) Hakaru
A treatise, book, memo, tablet, card; a plan, scheme; question; whip; etc.

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shì
    shi4
shih
 medogi
    めどぎ
    medoki
    めどき
divine by stalk
divination sticks

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    ji2
chi
 seki
    せき
(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records; (bound form) membership
(n,n-suf) (1) one's family register; one's domicile; (suffix noun) (2) nationality; (suffix noun) (3) membership (club, party, etc.); (surname) Seki
to write


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qiān
    qian1
ch`ien
    chien
 higo
    ひご
inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag
(kana only) thin strip of bamboo
lot

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jīng
    jing1
ching
 makoto
    まこと
essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of something; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
(1) spirit; sprite; nymph; (2) energy; vigor (vigour); strength; (3) fine details; (4) (See 精液) semen; (given name) Makoto
Cleaned rice, freed from the husk, pure; essential, essence, germinating principle, spirit; fine, best, finest.


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zhōng
    zhong1
chung
 owari
    おわり
end; finish
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) end; final; (2) end of life; death; (adverb) (3) never; not at all; (irregular okurigana usage) the end; (female given name) Owari
End, termination, final, utmost, death, the whole; opposite of 始.


𬘡

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yīn
    yin1
yin
generative force; magic emanation


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    di4
ti
(archaic) to bind up inextricably; (bound form) to form an enduring union; to establish (an alliance, a friendship, a nation etc)

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zài
    zai4
tsai
 kon
    こん
    koto
    こと
matter; affair
(out-dated kanji) (1) (kana only) thing; matter; (2) (kana only) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) (kana only) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) (kana only) work; business; affair; (5) (kana only) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (suffix noun) (6) (kana only) nominalizing suffix; (7) (kana only) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (n,n-suf) (8) (kana only) alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as


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jīng
    jing1
ching
 kei / ke
    けい
chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus); alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]
(1) thorny shrub; (2) wild rose; briar; (3) thorn; (4) (archit) cusp; (surname) Kei

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    ju3
chü
alternative name for taro (old)

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qiū
    qiu1
ch`iu
    chiu
 hagizaki
    はぎざき
Lespedeza bicolor
(1) (kana only) bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); (2) dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); (surname) Hagizaki

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shī
    shi1
shih
 medo
    めど
yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
(1) (archaism) (See メドハギ) Chinese lespedeza; (2) (archaism) (See めどぎ) divination sticks; (3) (archaism) fortune-telling (using divination sticks)


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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.


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chù
    chu4
ch`u
    chu
 tokoro
    ところ
place; location; spot; point; office; department; bureau; respect; classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point
(out-dated kanji) (n,suf) (1) place; spot; scene; site; (2) (kana only) address; (3) (kana only) district; area; locality; (4) (kana only) one's house; (5) (kana only) point; aspect; side; facet; (6) (kana only) passage (in text); part; (7) (kana only) space; room; (8) (kana only) thing; matter; (9) (kana only) whereupon; as a result; (10) (kana only) about to; on the verge of; (11) (kana only) was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing; (surname) Tokoro
To dwell, abide; fix, decide, punish; a place, state. āyatana, 阿耶怛那, also tr. 入, place or entrance of the sense, both the organ and the sensation, or sense datum; hence the 十二處 twelve āyatana, i. e. six organs, and six sense data that enter for discrimination.


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hào
    hao4
hao
 gou / go
    ごう
ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size; ship suffix; horn (wind instrument); bugle call; assumed name; to take a pulse; classifier used to indicate number of people
(n,n-suf) (1) number; edition; make; model; issue; part of that group; (2) sobriquet; pen-name; (suffix) (3) suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.; (personal name) Gou
To roar, call, cry, scream; sign, mark, designation.


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    xi2
hsi
 souen / soen
    そうえん
(bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate; (literary) classifier for suits of clothing or sets of bedding
(1) pile; heap; layers (e.g. of clothing); set (e.g. of boxes); course (e.g. of stones); (counter) (2) counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.); (3) layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat; (4) (abbreviation) combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours); (personal name) Souen


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    ba4
pa
 haru
    はる
variant of 霸[ba4]
(1) (See 覇を唱える) supremacy (over a nation); hegemony; domination; leadership; (2) championship; victory; (female given name) Haru


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xiàn
    xian4
hsien
 miru
    みる
to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]
(n-suf,n) (1) looking; viewing; (expression) (2) (colloquialism) (kana only) (after the -te form of a verb; irreg. imperative conj. of 見る) (See 見る・5) (please) try (to); (female given name) Miru
darśana, 捺喇捨曩; also dṛṣṭi; seeing, discerning, judgment, views, opinions; it is thinking, reasoning, discriminating, selecting truth, including the whole process of deducing conclusions from premises. It is commonly used in the sense of wrong or heterodox views or theories, i. e. 邪見 or 有見, especially such as viewing the seeming as real and the ego as real. There are groups of two, four, five, seven, ten and sixty-two kinds of 見.


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guàn
    guan4
kuan
 kan
Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platform
vipaśyanā; vidarśanā. To look into, study, examine, contemplate; contemplation, insight; a study, a Taoist monastery; to consider illusion and discern illusion, or discern the seeming from the real; to contemplate and mentally enter into truth. 覺 is defined as awakening, or awareness, 觀 as examination or study. It is also an old tr. of the word Yoga; and cf. 禪 17. Guan is especially a doctrine of the Tiantai school as shown in the 止觀 q.v.

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xiè
    xie4
hsieh
 shie
    しえ
acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old); variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old)
(1) {math} solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial); (2) solution (to a given problem); answer; (3) explanation; interpretation; (surname) Shie
To unloose, let go, release, untie, disentangle, explain, expound; intp. by mokṣa, mukti, vimokṣa, vimukti, cf. 解脫.


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xùn
    xun4
hsün
 yomi
    よみ
to teach; to train; to admonish; (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule
(1) native Japanese reading of a Chinese character; (n,suf) (2) (See 処世訓・しょせいくん) precept; lesson; one's teachings; (female given name) Yomi
To teach.


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shì
    shi4
shih
 shi
    し
to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
testing; experiment; test; examination; exam; trial
To try, test, attempt; tempt.


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    ke4
k`o
    ko
 ka
    か
subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination
(n,n-suf) (1) lesson; (n,n-suf) (2) section (in an organization); division; department; (counter) (3) counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
chapter


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zhì
    zhi4
chih
 tsuguhide
    つぐひで
to record; to write a footnote
(1) acquaintanceship; (2) {Buddh} vijnana; consciousness; (3) (after a signature) written by...; (personal name) Tsuguhide
vijñāna, "the art of distinguishing, or perceiving, or recognizing, discerning, understanding, comprehending, distinction, intelligence, knowledge, science, learning . . . wisdom." M.W. parijñāna, "perception, thorough knowledge," etc. M.W. It is intp. by 心 the mind, mental discernment, perception, in contrast with the object discerned; also by 了別 understanding and discrimination. There are classifications of 一識 that all things are the one mind, or are metaphysical; 二識 q. v. discriminating the ālaya-vijñāna or primal undivided condition from the mano-vijñāna or that of discrimination; 三識 in the Laṅkāvatāra Sutra, fundamental, manifested and discriminate; 五識 q.v. in the 起信論, i.e. 業, 轉, 現, 知, and 相續識; 六識 the perceptions and discernings of the six organs of sense; also of 8, 9, 10, and 11 識. The most important is the eight of the 起信論, i.e. the perceptions of the six organs of sense, eye, ear, nose, tongue, body (or touch), and mind, together with manas, intp. as 意識 the consciousness of the previous moment, on which the other six depend; the eighth is the ālaya-vijñāna, v. 阿賴耶, in which is contained the seed or stock of all phenomena and which 無沒 loses none, or nothing, is indestructible; a substitute for the seventh is ādāna 'receiving' of the 唯識, which is intp. as 無解 undiscriminated, or indefinite perception; there is a difference of view between the 相 and the 性 schools in regard to the seventh and eight 識; and the latter school add a ninth called the amala, or pure vijñāna, i.e. the non-phenomenal 眞如識. The esoterics add that all phenomena are mental and all things are the one mind, hence the one mind is 無量識 unlimited mind or knowledge, every kind of knowledge, or omniscience. vijñāna is one of the twelve nidānas.; Ālaya-vijñāna and mano-vijñāna; i. e. 阿梨耶 | and 分別事 |; v. 識.


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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.

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    qu4
ch`ü
    chü
 shu
    おもむき
interesting; to interest
(1) meaning; tenor; gist; (2) effect; influence; (3) appearance; aspect; (4) taste; (5) grace; charm; refinement
Destination, destiny (especially on rebirth): v. 五趣, i.e. the hells, pretas, animals, man, devas.

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bāng
    bang1
pang
 miyako
    みやこ
(bound form) country; nation; state
(1) country; state; (2) region; (3) national government; central government; (4) home (i.e. hometown, home country); (5) (archaism) province (of Japan); (6) (archaism) land; earth; (female given name) Miyako


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xiāng
    xiang1
hsiang
 gō
country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
The country, rural, village.

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bā bā
    ba1 ba1
pa pa
 pachipachi
    ぱちぱち
(Internet slang) bye-bye (alternative for 拜拜[bai2 bai2])
(expression) (net-sl) (See パチパチ・2) clap clap; good job

AC

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 ee shii; eeshii(sk) / ee shi; eeshi(sk)
    エー・シー; エーシー(sk)
(1) alternating current; AC; (2) analogue computer (analog); (3) average cost; (4) adult child

AT

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 ee tii; eetii(sk) / ee ti; eeti(sk)
    エー・ティー; エーティー(sk)
(1) (See オートマチックトランスミッション) automatic transmission; AT; (2) (See アチーブメントテスト) achievement test; (3) alternative technology; (4) (See 適正技術) appropriate technology; (5) (See 聴能訓練士) auditory trainer

DK

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 dii kee; diikee(sk); diikei(sk) / di kee; dikee(sk); dike(sk)
    ディー・ケー; ディーケー(sk); ディーケイ(sk)
(1) (abbreviation) (short for dining room, kitchen) (See ダイニングキッチン) eat-in-kitchen; combination kitchen-dining room; (2) (abbreviation) {sports} (See ドロップキック) dropkick (rugby)

SI

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 esu ai; esuai(sk)
    エス・アイ; エスアイ(sk)
(See 国際単位系) International System of Units; SI

UN

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 yuu en; yuuen(sk) / yu en; yuen(sk)
    ユー・エン; ユーエン(sk)
(See 国際連合) United Nations; UN

お国

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 okuni
    おくに
(1) (honorific or respectful language) your native country; your hometown; (2) (polite language) my home country (i.e. Japan); (3) countryside; country; (4) (archaism) daimyo's territory (Edo period)

か焼

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 kashou / kasho
    かしょう
(noun/participle) calcination; calcining

サ終

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 sashuu / sashu
    サしゅう
(n,vs,vi) (net-sl) (abbreviation) (from サービス終了) end of service (esp. of an online server); termination of service

なち

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 nachi
    ナチ
(See ナチス) Nazi (ger:); Nationalsozialist; (female given name) Nachi

はす

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 pasu
    パス
(n,vs,vt,vi) (1) passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); (2) pass (for admission, transport, etc.); ticket; (noun, transitive verb) (3) {sports} pass (of a ball); (n,vs,vi) (4) pass (ceding one's turn); giving (something) a pass; (personal name) Pass; Path; Paz

わっ

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 wa
    わっ
(interjection) (1) wow! (surprise); oh! (startled); eek!; gee!; (2) yeah! (joy); alright!; hurray!; (3) waah! (crying); boohoo!; (interjection) (1) boo! (sound used to scare someone); (2) ugh (dissatisfaction, aggravation); (3) ulp (consternation)

一国

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 kazukuni
    かずくに
(1) one country; (2) the whole nation; the whole country; (adjectival noun) (3) (dated) (See 一刻・2) stubborn; obstinate; (personal name) Kazukuni

一宗

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yī zōng
    yi1 zong1
i tsung
 kazumune
    かずむね
sect; denomination; (given name) Kazumune
one school

一明

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yī míng
    yi1 ming2
i ming
 kuniharu
    くにはる
(given name) Kuniharu
ming (i.e. bright, clear, illuminating) is the Shingon word for a dhāraṇī, or magical formula; especially applied to a magical acts.

一派

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 ippa
    いっぱ
(1) one school; one sect; one denomination; (2) one party; one faction; one group

一甲

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yī jiǎ
    yi1 jia3
i chia
 ikkou / ikko
    いっこう
1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2], 榜眼[bang3 yan3], and 探花[tan4 hua1], respectively)
(given name) Ikkou

一穴

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 ikketsu
    いっけつ
(1) one hole; (2) toilet bowl (for both urination and defecation); (3) effective point for moxibustion; (4) (colloquialism) one-woman man

一間


一间

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yī jiān
    yi1 jian1
i chien
 ichima
    いちま
one room; (surname) Ichima
ekavīcika 翳迦鼻致迦 Still one final stage of mortality before nirvāṇa. Also wrongly styled bījaka 鼻致迦, a seed 一種 which leads to one more reincarnation.

七仏

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 shichibutsu
    しちぶつ
(abbreviation) (See 過去七仏) the seven previous incarnations of Buddha

七華


七华

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qī huā
    qi1 hua1
ch`i hua
    chi hua
 hanaka
    はなか
(female given name) Hanaka
The seven flowers of enlightenmenmt, idem. 七善提分. Another versionispure in the commandments, in heart, in views, in doubt-discrimination, in judgment, in conduct, and in nirvana.

万博

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 banpaku
    ばんぱく
(abbreviation) (See 万国博覧会) world fair; international exposition; (place-name) Banpaku

万国

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 mankoku
    まんこく
(noun - becomes adjective with の) all countries; the whole world; universal; all nations; (surname) Mankoku

万民

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 banmin
    ばんみん
all people; the whole nation

万邦

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 makuni
    まくに
all nations; (personal name) Makuni

三元

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sān yuán
    san1 yuan2
san yüan
 miyuki
    みゆき
(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

三八

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sān bā
    san1 ba1
san pa
 miya
    みや
International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节[Fu4 nu:3 jie2], 8th March; foolish; stupid
(1) three and eight; (2) (abbreviation) (See 三八式歩兵銃) Arisaka Type 38 rifle; (personal name) Miya
(days ending with the number) 3 and 8

三句

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sān jù
    san1 ju4
san chü
 sanku
Three cryptic questions of 雲門 Yunmen, founder of the Yunmen Chan School. They are: (1) 截斷衆流 What is it that stops all flow (of reincarnation) ? The reply from the 起信論 is 一心, i. e. the realization of the oneness of mind, or that all is mind. (2) 函蓋乾坤 What contains and includes the universe? The 眞如. (3) 隨波逐浪 One wave following another— what is this? Birth and death 生死, or transmigration, phenomenal existence.

三寳


三宝

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sān bǎo
    san1 bao3
san pao
 sanbō
Triratna, or Ratnatraya, i.e. the Three Precious Ones: 佛 Buddha, 法 Dharma, 儈 Saṅgha, i.e. Buddha, the Law, the Ecelesia or Order. Eitel suggests this trinity may be adapted from the Trimūrti, i.e, Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Sīva. The Triratna takes many forms, e.g. the Trikāya 三身 q.v. There is also the Nepalese idea of a triple existence of each Buddha as a Nirvāṇa-Buddha, Dhyāni-Buddha, and Mānuṣi-Buddha; also the Tantric trinity of Vairocana as Nirvāṇa-Buddha, Locana according to Eitel "existing in reflex in the world of forms", and the human Buddha, Śākyamuni. There are other elaborated details known as the four and the six kinds of triratna 四 and 六種三寳, e.g. that the Triratna exists in each member of the trinity. The term has also been applied to the 三仙 q.v. Popularly the 三寳 are referred to the three images in the main hall of monasteries. The centre one is Śākyamuni, on his left Bhaiṣajya 藥師 and on his right Amitābha. There are other explanations, e.g. in some temples Amitābha is in the centre, Avalokiteśvara on his left, and Mahāsthāmaprāpta or Mañjuśrī on his right. Table of Triratna, Trikāya, and Trailokya: — DHARMASAṄGHABUDDHAEssential BodhiReflected BodhiPractical BodhiDhyāni BuddhaDhyāni BodhisattvaMānuṣī BuddhaDharmakāyaSambhogakāyaNirmāṇakāyaPurityCompletenessTransformations4th Buddha-kṣetra3rd Buddha-kṣetra1st and 2nd Buddha kṣetraArūpadhātuRūpadhātuKāmadhātu.

三從


三从

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sān cóng
    san1 cong2
san ts`ung
    san tsung
 san shō
A woman's three subordinations, to father, husband, and son; stated in several sūtras, e.g. 四十華嚴經28.

三戒

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sān jiè
    san1 jie4
san chieh
 sankai
    さんかい
(1) (from the Analects of Confucius) three lifetime commandments (youth's femininity, middle-aged struggle, old-age gain); (2) {Buddh} three categories of precepts (lay, ordination, moral)
The three sets of commandments, i.e. the ten for the ordained who have left home, the eight for the devout at home, and the five for the ordinary laity.

三易

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 saneki
    さんえき
three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

三時


三时

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sān shí
    san1 shi2
san shih
 mitoki
    みとき
(adverbial noun) (1) 3 o'clock; (2) 3 o'clock snack; (personal name) Mitoki
The three divisions of the day, i.e. dawn, daylight, and sunset; or morning, noon, and evening; also the three periods, after his nirvāṇa, of every Buddha's teaching, viz., 正 correct, or the period of orthodoxy and vigour, 像 semblance, or the period of scholasticism, and 末 end, the period of decline and termination.

三智

see styles
sān zhì
    san1 zhi4
san chih
 michi
    みち
(female given name) Michi
The three kinds of wisdom: (1) (a) 一切智 śrāvaka and pratyeka-buddha knowledge that all the dharma or laws are 空 void and unreal; (b) 道種智 bodhisattva-knowledge. of all things in their proper discrimination; (c) 一切種智 Buddha-knowledge, or perfect knowledge of all things in their every aspect and relationship past, present, and future. Tiantai associates the above with 室, 候, 中. (2) (a) 世間智 earthly or ordinary wisdom; (b) 出世間智 supra-mundane, or spiritual (śrāvaka and pratyeka-buddha) wisdom; (c) 出世間上上智 supreme wisdom of bodhisattvas and Buddhas. v. 智度論 27, 止觀 3, and 概伽經 3. Cf. — 心三智.

三混

see styles
 sankon
    さんこん
(abbreviation) (See 三種混合) combined vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus

三生

see styles
sān shēng
    san1 sheng1
san sheng
 mitsuo
    みつお
(surname, given name) Mitsuo
The three births, or reincarnations, past, present, future. Tiantai has (a) 種 planting the seed; (b) 熟 ripening; (c) 脫 liberating, stripping, or harvesting, i.e. beginning, development, and reward of bodhi, a process either gradual or instantaneous. Huayan has (a) 見聞生 a past life of seeing and hearing Buddha-truth; (b) 解行生 liberation in the present life; (c) 證入生 realization of life in Buddhahood. This is also called 三生成佛, Buddhahood in the course of three lives. There is also a definition of three rebirths as the shortest term for arhatship, sixty kalpas being the longest. There are other definitions.

三甲

see styles
sān jiǎ
    san1 jia3
san chia
3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination; (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等|三级甲等[san1 ji2 jia3 deng3])

三蘊


三蕴

see styles
sān yùn
    san1 yun4
san yün
 san'un
The three kinds of skandhas, aggregations, or combinations, into which all life may be expressed according to the 化地 or Mahīśāsakāh school: 一念蘊 combination for a moment, momentary existence; 一期蘊 combination for a period, e.g. a single human lifetime; 窮生死蘊 the total existence of all beings.

三語


三语

see styles
sān yǔ
    san1 yu3
san yü
 sango
Buddha's three modes of discourse, i.e. without reserve, or the whole truth; tactical or partial, adapting truth to the capacity of his hearers; and a combination of both.

三識


三识

see styles
sān shì
    san1 shi4
san shih
 sanshiki
The three states of mind or consciousness: 眞識 the original unsullied consciousness or Mind, the tathāgatagarbha, the eighth or ālaya 阿賴耶識 ; 現識 mind or consciousness diversified in contact with or producing phenomena, good and evil; 分別識 consciousness discriminating and evolving the objects of the five senses. Also 意識 manas, 心識 ālaya, and 無垢識 amala, v. 識.

三身

see styles
sān shēn
    san1 shen1
san shen
 sanmi
    さんみ
{Buddh} trikaya (three bodies of the Buddha); (surname) Sanmi
trikāya. 三寶身 The threefold body or nature of a Buddha, i.e. the 法, 報, and 化身, or dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, and nirmāṇakāya. The three are defined as 自性, 受用, and 變化, the Buddha-body per se, or in its essential nature; his body of bliss, which he "receives" for his own "use" and enjoyment; and his body of transformation, by which he can appear in any form; i.e. spiritual, or essential; glorified; revealed. While the doctrine of the trikāya is a Mahāyāna concept, it partly results from the Hīnayāna idealization of the earthly Buddha with his thirty-two signs, eighty physical marks, clairvoyance, clairaudience, holiness, purity, wisdom, pity, etc. Mahāyāna, however, proceeded to conceive of Buddha as the Universal, the All, with infinity of forms, yet above all our concepts of unity or diversity. To every Buddha Mahāyāna attributed a three-fold body: that of essential Buddha; that of joy or enjoyment of the fruits of his past saving labours; that of power to transform himself at will to any shape for omnipresent salvation of those who need him. The trinity finds different methods of expression, e.g. Vairocana is entitled 法身, the embodiment of the Law, shining everywhere, enlightening all; Locana is 報身; c.f. 三賓, the embodiment of purity and bliss; Śākyamuni is 化身 or Buddha revealed. In the esoteric sect they are 法 Vairocana, 報 Amitābha, and 化 Śākyamuni. The 三賓 are also 法 dharma, 報 saṅgha, 化 buddha. Nevertheless, the three are considered as a trinity, the three being essentially one, each in the other. (1) 法身 Dharmakāya in its earliest conception was that of the body of the dharma, or truth, as preached by Śākyamuni; later it became his mind or soul in contrast with his material body. In Mādhyamika, the dharmakāya was the only reality, i.e. the void, or the immateria1, the ground of all phenomena; in other words, the 眞如 the tathāgatagarbha, the bhūtatathatā. According to the Huayan (Kegon) School it is the 理or noumenon, while the other two are氣or phenomenal aspects. "For the Vijñānavāda... the body of the law as highest reality is the void intelligence, whose infection (saṃkleҫa) results in the process of birth and death, whilst its purification brings about Nirvāṇa, or its restoration to its primitive transparence" (Keith). The "body of the law is the true reality of everything". Nevertheless, in Mahāyāna every Buddha has his own 法身; e.g. in the dharmakāya aspect we have the designation Amitābha, who in his saṃbhogakāya aspect is styled Amitāyus. (2) 報身Sambhogakāya, a Buddha's reward body, or body of enjoyment of the merits he attained as a bodhisattva; in other words, a Buddha in glory in his heaven. This is the form of Buddha as an object of worship. It is defined in two aspects, (a) 自受用身 for his own bliss, and (b) 他受用身 for the sake of others, revealing himself in his glory to bodhisattvas, enlightening and inspiring them. By wisdom a Buddha's dharmakāya is attained, by bodhisattva-merits his saṃbhogakāya. Not only has every Buddha all the three bodies or aspects, but as all men are of the same essence, or nature, as Buddhas, they are therefore potential Buddhas and are in and of the trikāya. Moreover, trikāya is not divided, for a Buddha in his 化身 is still one with his 法身 and 報身, all three bodies being co-existent. (3) 化身; 應身; 應化身 nirmāṇakāya, a Buddha's transformation, or miraculous body, in which he appears at will and in any form outside his heaven, e.g. as Śākyamuni among men.

三輪


三轮

see styles
sān lún
    san1 lun2
san lun
 miwa
    みわ
three wheels; (p,s,f) Miwa
The three wheels: (1) The Buddha's (a) 身 body or deeds; (b) 口 mouth, or discourse; (c) 意 mind or ideas. (2) (a) 神通 (or 變) His supernatural powers, or powers of (bodily) self-transformation, associated with 身 body; (b) 記心輪 his discriminating understanding of others, associated with 意 mind; (c) 敎誡輪 or 正敎輪 his (oral) powers of teaching, associated with 口. (3) Similarly (a) 神足輪 ; (b) 說法輪 ; (c) 憶念輪 . (4) 惑, 業, and 苦. The wheel of illusion produces karma, that of karma sets rolling that of suffering, which in turn sets rolling the wheel of illusion. (5) (a) Impermanence; (b) uncleanness; (c) suffering. Cf. 三道.

三韓


三韩

see styles
sān hán
    san1 han2
san han
 sankan
    さんかん
(hist) the three Han nations (of ancient Korea)
the three Han

下世

see styles
xià shì
    xia4 shi4
hsia shih
 shimoyo
    しもよ
to die; future incarnation; next life; to be born; to come into the world; future generation
(surname) Shimoyo

下品

see styles
xià pǐn
    xia4 pin3
hsia p`in
    hsia pin
 shimoshina
    しもしな
(noun or adjectival noun) vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude; (place-name) Shimoshina
The three lowest of the nine classes born in the Amitābha Pure Land, v. 無量壽經. These three lowest grades are (1) 下品上生 The highest of the three lowest classes who enter the Pure Land of Amitābha, i.e. those who have committed all sins except dishonouring the sūtras. If at the end of life the sinner clasps hands and says "Namo Amitābha", such a one will be born in His precious lake. (2) 下品中生 The middle class consists of those who have broken all the commandments, even stolen from monks and abused the law. If at death such a one hears of the great power of Amitābha, and assents with but a thought, he will be received into paradise. (3) 下品下生 The lowest class, because of their sins, should have fallen into the lowest gati, but by invoking the name of Amitābha, they can escape countless ages of reincarnation and suffering and on dying will behold a lotus flower like the sun, and, by the response of a single thought, will enter the Pure Land of Amitābha.

下地

see styles
xià dì
    xia4 di4
hsia ti
 shimoji
    しもぢ
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.

不二

see styles
bù èr
    bu4 er4
pu erh
 fuji
    ふじ
the only (choice, way etc); undivided (loyalty)
{Buddh} advaitam (non-duality); (surname, female given name) Fuji
advaya. No second, non-duality, the one and undivided, the unity of all things, the one reality、 the universal Buddha-nature. There are numerous combinations, e. g. 善惡不二 good and evil are not a dualism: nor are 有 and 空 the material and immaterial, nor are 迷 and 悟 delusion and awareness— all these are of the one Buddha-nature.

不來


不来

see styles
bù lái
    bu4 lai2
pu lai
 furai
Not coming (back to mortality), an explanation of 阿那含 anāgāmin.

不振

see styles
bù zhèn
    bu4 zhen4
pu chen
 fushin
    ふしん
lacking in vitality; depressed (market, spirits etc)
(n,adj-no,adj-na) dullness; slump; stagnation; inactivity; depression

不第

see styles
bù dì
    bu4 di4
pu ti
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)

不輕


不轻

see styles
bù qīng
    bu4 qing1
pu ch`ing
    pu ching
 fukyō
Never Despise, 常不輕菩薩 a previous incarnation of the Buddha, as a monk whose constant greeting to all he met, that they were destined for Buddhahood, brought him much persecution; see the chapter of this title in the Lotus Sutra.

不退

see styles
bù tuì
    bu4 tui4
pu t`ui
    pu tui
 futai
    ふたい
determination; (surname) Futai
(不退轉) avaivartika, or avinivartanīya. Never receding, always progressing, not backsliding, or losing ground; never retreating but going straight to nirvana; an epithet of every Buddha.

不逞

see styles
 futei / fute
    ふてい
(noun or adjectival noun) insubordination; outlawry

与国

see styles
 yokuni
    よくに
(form) allied nation; ally; (surname) Yokuni

両便

see styles
 ryouben / ryoben
    りょうべん
urination and bowel movement

中天

see styles
zhōng tiān
    zhong1 tian1
chung t`ien
    chung tien
 chuuten / chuten
    ちゅうてん
culmination (astronomy)
mid-air; mid-heaven; zenith
(中天竺) Central North India, idem 中國.

中式

see styles
zhòng shì
    zhong4 shi4
chung shih
to pass the imperial examinations

中押

see styles
 nakaoshi
    なかおし
    chuuoshi / chuoshi
    ちゅうおし
(irregular okurigana usage) winning by opponent's resignation (in the game of go)

中方

see styles
zhōng fāng
    zhong1 fang1
chung fang
 nakahou / nakaho
    なかほう
the Chinese side (in an international venture)
(place-name) Nakahou

中有

see styles
zhōng yǒu
    zhong1 you3
chung yu
 chuuu / chuu
    ちゅうう
{Buddh} (See 中陰,四有) bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days)
One of the 四有, i. e. the antarā-bhāva or intermediate state of existence between death and reincarnation; hence 中有之旅 is an unsettled being in search of a new habitat or reincarnation; v. 中陰.

中流

see styles
zhōng liú
    zhong1 liu2
chung liu
 chuuru / churu
    ちゅうる
midstream
(hist) (See 三流・さんる) banishment (to a somewhat distant province); middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryō system
In the midst of the stream, i. e. of 生死 mortality, or reincarnations.

中舉


中举

see styles
zhòng jǔ
    zhong4 ju3
chung chü
to pass the provincial level imperial examination

中陰


中阴

see styles
zhōng yīn
    zhong1 yin1
chung yin
 nakakage
    なかかげ
{Buddh} bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days); (place-name) Nakakage
The intermediate existence between death and reincarnation, a stage varying from seven to forty-nine days, when the karma-body will certainly be reborn; v. 中有.

主格

see styles
zhǔ gé
    zhu3 ge2
chu ko
 shukaku
    しゅかく
nominative case (grammar)
(noun - becomes adjective with の) {gramm} nominative case

乖離


乖离

see styles
guāi lí
    guai1 li2
kuai li
 kairi
    かいり
(noun/participle) divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment
to diverge

九一

see styles
 kuichi
    くいち
{cards} (See おいちょかぶ) scoring combination of a 9 and a 1 in oicho-kabu; (given name) Kuichi

九博

see styles
 kyuuhaku / kyuhaku
    きゅうはく
(org) Kyushu National Museum (abbreviation); (o) Kyushu National Museum (abbreviation)

也罷


也罢

see styles
yě bà
    ye3 ba4
yeh pa
(reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind; fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)

亀卜

see styles
 kiboku
    きぼく
    kameura
    かめうら
tortoise-shell divination

了い

see styles
 jimai
    じまい
    shimai
    しまい
(suffix) (1) (kana only) ending; quitting; closing; (2) (kana only) indicates disappointment for not having done what one wanted or intended to do; end; close; finish; termination

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