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薛稷 see styles |
xuē jì xue1 ji4 hsüeh chi |
Xue Ji (649-713), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1] |
藩庁 see styles |
hanchou / hancho はんちょう |
(hist) (See 藩) administrative headquarters of a feudal domain (early Meiji period) |
袁頭 袁头 see styles |
yuán tóu yuan2 tou2 yüan t`ou yüan tou |
silver coin from the early days of the Republic of China (1912-1949) bearing the head of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] |
襁褓 see styles |
qiǎng bǎo qiang3 bao3 ch`iang pao chiang pao mutsuki むつき oshime おしめ |
swaddling clothes; fig. early stage of development; infancy (1) diaper; nappy; (2) (archaism) swaddling clothes; (3) (archaism) loincloth |
西戎 see styles |
xī róng xi1 rong2 hsi jung seijuu / seju せいじゅう |
the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards; Xionites (Central Asian nomads) (hist) Xirong; Rong; inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE); barbarians to the west |
詩經 诗经 see styles |
shī jīng shi1 jing1 shih ching |
Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1] |
語部 see styles |
kataribe かたりべ |
(1) (professional) storyteller; (2) hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court |
諸部 诸部 see styles |
zhū bù zhu1 bu4 chu pu shobu |
the various [early Indian] schools |
貝寄 see styles |
kaiyose かいよせ |
west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore |
趙岐 赵岐 see styles |
zhào qí zhao4 qi2 chao ch`i chao chi |
Zhao Qi (-201 BC), early Han commentator on Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] |
転ぶ see styles |
korobu(p); marobu ころぶ(P); まろぶ |
(v5b,vi) (1) to fall down; to fall over; (v5b,vi) (2) (ころぶ only) (oft. as どう転んでも) to turn out; to play out; (v5b,vi) (3) (ころぶ only) (in early Japanese Christianity) to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize; (v5b,vi) (4) (See ころがる・1) to roll; to tumble; (v5b,vi) (5) (archaism) (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret |
農友 农友 see styles |
nóng yǒu nong2 you3 nung yu nouyuu / noyu のうゆう |
our peasant friends (political term used in the early years of the Old Democratic Revolution, 1840-1919); (Tw) (coll.) farmer (place-name) Nouyū |
近世 see styles |
kinsei / kinse きんせい |
(1) recent past; recent times; (2) (hist) early modern period (Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo in Japan) |
近代 see styles |
jìn dài jin4 dai4 chin tai chikayo ちかよ |
the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949) (1) present day; modern times; recent times; (2) (hist) (See 明治維新) early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II); (female given name) Chikayo in recent times |
近古 see styles |
jìn gǔ jin4 gu3 chin ku kinko きんこ |
near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times) early modern age |
速い see styles |
hayai はやい |
(adjective) (1) fast; quick; hasty; brisk; (2) early (in the day, etc.); premature; (3) (too) soon; not yet; (too) early; (4) easy; simple; quick |
速く see styles |
hayaku はやく |
(adverb) (1) early; soon; (2) quickly; swiftly; rapidly; fast |
速め see styles |
hayame はやめ |
(can be adjective with の) (1) early; (2) fast |
速目 see styles |
hayame はやめ |
(can be adjective with の) (1) early; (2) fast; (surname) Hayame |
連歌 连歌 see styles |
lián gē lian2 ge1 lien ko renga れんが |
renga renga (early Japanese poetry form); linked verse; poetic dialogue |
道人 see styles |
dào rén dao4 ren2 tao jen michihito みちひと |
Taoist devotee (honorific) (given name) Michihito One who has entered the way, one who seeks enlightenment, a general name for early Buddhists and also for Taoists. |
適才 适才 see styles |
shì cái shi4 cai2 shih ts`ai shih tsai |
just now; a moment ago (often used in the early vernacular) |
邏卒 see styles |
rasotsu らそつ |
(1) serviceman on patrol; (2) (archaism) (See 巡査) policeman (early Meiji era) |
都督 see styles |
dū dū du1 du1 tu tu totoku ととく |
(army) commander-in-chief (archaic); provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD) governor-general |
鄭和 郑和 see styles |
zhèng hé zheng4 he2 cheng ho teiwa / tewa ていわ |
Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer (person) Zheng He (ca. 1371-1434) |
野火 see styles |
yě huǒ ye3 huo3 yeh huo nobi のび |
wildfire; (spreading like) wildfire; bush fire; farm fire (for clearing fields) (1) fires set off in early spring to burn off dead grass; (2) bush fire; field fire; grass fire; (wk) Fires on the Plain (1951 novel by Ooka Shohei); (surname) Nobi forest fire |
金札 see styles |
kanefuda かねふだ |
(1) golden label; golden protective talisman; (2) (hist) kinsatsu (Edo-period paper money); (3) (hist) kinsatsu (early Meiji-period paper money); (4) (See 鉄札・2,閻魔) golden tablet belonging to Yama that is inscribed with the names of souls to be sent to paradise; (surname) Kanefuda |
長唄 see styles |
nagauta ながうた |
long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century) |
開初 开初 see styles |
kāi chū kai1 chu1 k`ai ch`u kai chu kaihatsu かいはつ |
at the outset; at first; early (surname) Kaihatsu |
開局 开局 see styles |
kāi jú kai1 ju2 k`ai chü kai chü kaikyoku かいきょく |
opening (chess etc); early stage of game, match, work, activity etc (n,vs,vt,vi) opening (of a broadcasting station, post office, bureau, etc.); establishment |
隋末 see styles |
suí mò sui2 mo4 sui mo |
last years of the Sui dynasty; early 7th century AD |
雪虫 see styles |
yukimushi ゆきむし |
(1) flies that appear in Tohoku and Hokkaido in late autumn or early winter (esp. the woolly apple aphid); (2) flies that appear above fallen snow in the early spring (esp. certain species of small winter stonefly and true crane fly); (place-name) Yukimushi |
雲門 云门 see styles |
yún mén yun2 men2 yün men unmon うんもん |
(personal name) Unmon The Cloud-gate monastery in Guangdong, from which 文偃 Wenyan derived his title; his name was 張雪峯 Zhang Xuefeng; he lived early in the tenth century and founded the 雲門宗 (雲門禪宗), v. 三句. |
電木 电木 see styles |
diàn mù dian4 mu4 tien mu |
bakelite (early plastic); also written 膠木|胶木[jiao1 mu4] |
預警 预警 see styles |
yù jǐng yu4 jing3 yü ching |
warning; early warning |
駄袋 see styles |
danbukuro だんぶくろ |
(1) large cloth sack; (2) baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising) |
黴雨 see styles |
baiu ばいう tsuyu つゆ |
(1) rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July); (2) rain during the rainy season |
テウス see styles |
deusu デウス |
(early Japanese Christian term) God (lat: Deus); (personal name) Deus |
ナタル see styles |
nadaru ナダル |
(archaism) (early Japanese Christian term) (See 降誕祭・1) Christmas (por: Natal); Nativity; (personal name) Nadar |
プレ金 see styles |
purekin プレきん |
(colloquialism) (abbreviation) (See プレミアムフライデー) Premium Friday; government-backed campaign to allow workers to go home early the last Friday of the month |
モッズ see styles |
mozzu モッズ |
(hist) mods (early '60s subculture) |
一六日 see styles |
ichirokubi いちろくび |
(hist) Edo period to early Meiji non-working day falling on all days of the month with a 1 or a 6 in it (when written in kanji numerals, i.e. the 1st, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th days of the month) |
一清早 see styles |
yī qīng zǎo yi1 qing1 zao3 i ch`ing tsao i ching tsao |
early in the morning |
三彌底 三弥底 see styles |
sān mí dǐ san1 mi2 di3 san mi ti Sanmitei |
三蜜 The Sammatīya school.; 彌底; 彌離底; 三密 (or 蜜) 栗底尼迦耶; 三眉底與量弟子 Saṃmatīyanikāya, Saṃmata, or Saṃmitīyas. A Hīnayāna sect the 正量部 correctly commensurate or logical school, very numerous and widely spread during the early centuries of our era. The 三彌底部論 is in the Tripiṭaka. It taught "that a soul exists in the highest and truest sense", "that an arhat can fall from arhatship, that a god can enter the paths of the Order, and that even an unconverted man can get rid of all lust and ill-will" (Eliot, i, 260). It split into the three branches of Kaurukullakāḥ Āvantikāh, and Vātsīputrīyāḥ. |
三時教 三时教 see styles |
sān shí jiào san1 shi2 jiao4 san shih chiao sanji kyō |
(三時教判) The three periods and characteristics of Buddha's teaching, as defined by the Dharmalakṣana school 法相宗. They are: (1) 有, when he taught the 實有 reality of the skandhas and elements, but denied the common belief in 實我 real personality or a permanent soul; this period is represented by the four 阿含經 āgamas and other Hīnayāna sūtras. (2) 空 Śūnya, when he negatived the idea of 實法 the reality of things and advocated that all was 空 unreal; the period of the 般若經 prajñā sūtras. (3) 中 Madhyama, the mean, that mind or spirit is real, while things are unreal; the period of this school's specific sūtra the 解深密經, also the 法華 and later sūtras. In the two earlier periods he is said to have 方便 adapted his teaching to the development of his hearers; in the third to have delivered his complete and perfect doctrine. Another division by the 空宗 is (1) as above; (2) the early period of the Mahāyāna represented, by the 深密經; (3) the higher Mahāyāna as in the 般若經. v. also 三敎. |
上座部 see styles |
shàng zuò bù shang4 zuo4 bu4 shang tso pu jouzabu / jozabu じょうざぶ |
Theravada school of Buddhism Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement) 他毘梨典部; 他鞞羅部 Sthavirāḥ; Sthaviranikāya; or Āryasthāvirāḥ. The school of the presiding elder, or elders. The two earliest sections of Buddhism were this (which developed into the Mahāsthavirāḥ) and the Mahāsānghikāḥ or 大衆部. At first they were not considered to be different schools, the 上座部 merely representing the intimate and older disciples of Śākyamuni and the 大衆 being the rest. It is said that a century later under Mahādeva 大天 a difference of opinion arose on certain doctrines. Three divisions are named as resulting, viz. Mahāvihāravāsinaḥ, Jetavanīyāḥ, and Abhayagiri-vāsinaḥ. These were in Ceylon. In course of time the eighteen Hīnayāna sects were developed. From the time of Aśoka four principal schools are counted as prevailing: Mahāsāṅghika, Sthavira, Mūlasarvāstivda, and Saṁmitīya. The following is a list of the eleven sects reckoned as of the 上座部: 說一切有部; 雪山; 犢子; 法上; 賢冑; 正量; 密林山; 化地; 法藏; 飮光; and 經量部. The Sthaviravādin is reputed as nearest to early Buddhism in its tenets, though it is said to have changed the basis of Buddhism from an agnostic system to a realistic philosophy. |
下半身 see styles |
xià bàn shēn xia4 ban4 shen1 hsia pan shen kahanshin(p); shimohanshin かはんしん(P); しもはんしん |
lower half of one's body; Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century) (See 上半身) lower half of the body; nether parts |
中古語 see styles |
chuukogo / chukogo ちゅうこご |
{ling} Early Middle Japanese |
主殿造 see styles |
shudenzukuri しゅでんづくり |
early phase of the shoin-zukuri residential architecture style |
五月晴 see styles |
satsukibare さつきばれ |
early-summer fine weather (during rainy season) |
五正食 see styles |
wǔ zhèng shí wu3 zheng4 shi2 wu cheng shih go shōjiki |
半者蒲膳尼 pañcabhojanīya. The five foods considered proper for monks in early Buddhism: boiled rice, boiled grain or pease, parched grain, flesh, cakes. |
傾奇者 see styles |
kabukimono かぶきもの |
(yoji) dandy; peacock; early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza; Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior |
光琳派 see styles |
kourinha / korinha こうりんは |
Korin school; Rimpa school (of painting, 17th-early 20th century) |
公羊傳 公羊传 see styles |
gōng yáng zhuàn gong1 yang2 zhuan4 kung yang chuan |
Mr Gongyang's Annals or commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history, probably written by multiple authors during Han dynasty, same as 公羊春秋[Gong1 yang2 Chun1 qiu1] |
兵部省 see styles |
hyoubushou / hyobusho ひょうぶしょう |
(1) (hist) ministry in charge of military affairs (ritsuryō period); (2) (hist) military command body (early Meiji period) |
内々定 see styles |
nainaitei / nainaite ないないてい |
early unofficial job offer; informal promise of employment |
内内定 see styles |
nainaitei / nainaite ないないてい |
early unofficial job offer; informal promise of employment |
切支丹 see styles |
kirishitan きりしたん |
(ateji / phonetic) (kana only) early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period) (por: cristao); early Japanese Christian |
切死丹 see styles |
kirishitan きりしたん |
(ateji / phonetic) (kana only) early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period) (por: cristao); early Japanese Christian |
初時雨 see styles |
hatsushigure はつしぐれ |
(archaism) the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter |
前安居 see styles |
qián ān jū qian2 an1 ju1 ch`ien an chü chien an chü zen ango |
early retreat |
創成期 see styles |
souseiki / soseki そうせいき |
initial stage; early period |
千金方 see styles |
qiān jīn fāng qian1 jin1 fang1 ch`ien chin fang chien chin fang |
Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈[Sun1 Si1 miao3] |
南蛮船 see styles |
nanbansen なんばんせん |
(hist) foreign ship (esp. from Spain and Portugal from the late Muromachi period to the early Edo period); Nanban trade ship |
原初的 see styles |
genshoteki げんしょてき |
(adjectival noun) early; primitive; primordial |
古備前 see styles |
kobizen こびぜん |
(1) (hist) Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods); (2) (hist) (See 備前焼) ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods) |
史籀篇 see styles |
shǐ zhòu piān shi3 zhou4 pian1 shih chou p`ien shih chou pien |
Shizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆[da4 zhuan4], attributed to King Xuan of Zhou 周宣王[Zhou1 Xuan1 wang2] but probably dating from c. 500 BC |
司馬遷 司马迁 see styles |
sī mǎ qiān si1 ma3 qian1 ssu ma ch`ien ssu ma chien shibasen しばせん |
Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography (person) Sima Qian (historian of early Han dynasty) |
吳嘉經 吴嘉经 see styles |
wú jiā jīng wu2 jia1 jing1 wu chia ching |
Wu Jiajing (1618-1684), early Qing dynasty poet |
唐行き see styles |
karayuki からゆき |
(kana only) karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) |
唐行様 see styles |
karayukisan からゆきさん |
(kana only) Japanese women who worked as prostitutes in China, Manchuria, etc. (Meiji to early Showa) |
四分曆 四分历 see styles |
sì fēn lì si4 fen1 li4 ssu fen li |
"quarter remainder" calendar, the first calculated Chinese calendar, in use from the Warring States period until the early years of the Han dynasty |
地狂言 see styles |
jikyougen / jikyogen じきょうげん |
(See 地芝居) local amateur kabuki performance (esp. popular in the late Edo and early Meiji periods) |
大哥大 see styles |
dà gē dà da4 ge1 da4 ta ko ta |
cell phone (bulky, early-model one); brick phone; mob boss |
大清早 see styles |
dà qīng zǎo da4 qing1 zao3 ta ch`ing tsao ta ching tsao |
early in the morning |
大總統 大总统 see styles |
dà zǒng tǒng da4 zong3 tong3 ta tsung t`ung ta tsung tung |
president (primarily used during the early years of the Republic of China, 1912–1928) |
大衆部 大众部 see styles |
dà zhòng bù da4 zhong4 bu4 ta chung pu daishubu だいしゅぶ |
(See 上座部) Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement) 摩調僧祇部 Mahāsāṅghikāḥ, the school of the community, or majority; one of the chief early divisions, cf. 上坐部 Mahāsthavirāḥ or Sthavirāḥ, i.e. the elders. There are two usages of the term, first, when the sthavira, or older disciples assembled in the cave after the Buddha's death, and the others, the 大衆, assembled outside. As sects, the principal division was that which took place later. The Chinese attribute this division to the influence of 大天 Mahādeva, a century after the Nirvāṇa, and its subsequent five subdivisions are also associated with his name: they are Pūrvasailāḥ, Avaraśailāḥ, Haimavatāḥ, Lokottara-vādinaḥ, and Prajñapti-vādinaḥ; v. 小乘. |
天演論 天演论 see styles |
tiān yǎn lùn tian1 yan3 lun4 t`ien yen lun tien yen lun |
the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论) |
奉教人 see styles |
houkyounin / hokyonin ほうきょうにん |
early Japanese Christian |
始祖鳥 始祖鸟 see styles |
shǐ zǔ niǎo shi3 zu3 niao3 shih tsu niao shisochou / shisocho しそちょう |
archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx; extinct genus of early birds |
子飼い see styles |
kogai こがい |
(1) rearing from infancy; (2) training from an early age (e.g. an apprentice); teaching from an early stage (e.g. a subordinate) |
孕嬰童 孕婴童 see styles |
yùn yīng tóng yun4 ying1 tong2 yün ying t`ung yün ying tung |
(market segment) maternity and early childhood |
安宅船 see styles |
atakebune あたけぶね |
large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods |
宵の口 see styles |
yoinokuchi よいのくち |
(exp,n) nightfall; early evening |
小夜班 see styles |
xiǎo yè bān xiao3 ye4 ban1 hsiao yeh pan |
evening shift; early night shift |
小新聞 see styles |
koshinbun こしんぶん |
(1) (See 大新聞) koshinbun (type of early Meiji-era newspaper); (2) minor journal; local newspaper |
少出家 see styles |
shǎo chū jiā shao3 chu1 jia1 shao ch`u chia shao chu chia shō shukke |
left home at an early age |
山西獸 山西兽 see styles |
shān xī shòu shan1 xi1 shou4 shan hsi shou |
Shansitherium fuguensis (early giraffe) |
常陸梅 see styles |
hitachiume ひたちうめ |
{sumo} era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II |
平等教 see styles |
píng děng jiào ping2 deng3 jiao4 p`ing teng chiao ping teng chiao byōdō kyo |
One of two schools founded by 印法師 Yin Fashi early in the Tang dynasty. |
幼児期 see styles |
youjiki / yojiki ようじき |
(See 幼児・ようじ・1) early childhood |
幼少期 see styles |
youshouki / yoshoki ようしょうき |
(early) childhood |
序盤戦 see styles |
jobansen じょばんせん |
early stages (of a game); opening phase |
廅樓亘 廅楼亘 see styles |
hé lóu gèng he2 lou2 geng4 ho lou keng Ōrōkō |
An early attempt to translate the name of Guanyin. 廅樓亙. |
彼岸桜 see styles |
higanzakura; higanzakura ひがんざくら; ヒガンザクラ |
(1) (kana only) (See 江戸彼岸) higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox); (2) (colloquialism) (See 江戸彼岸) double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula) |
往来物 see styles |
ouraimono / oraimono おうらいもの |
(hist) ōraimono; type of elementary school textbook, used from late Heian to early Meiji periods |
戴名世 see styles |
dài míng shì dai4 ming2 shi4 tai ming shih |
Dai Mingshi (1653-1713), early Qing writer |
日知錄 日知录 see styles |
rì zhī lù ri4 zhi1 lu4 jih chih lu |
Rizhilu or Record of daily study, by early Confucian philosopher Gu Yanwu 顧炎武|顾炎武 |
早くも see styles |
hayakumo はやくも |
(adverb) (1) already; as early as; (adverb) (2) at the earliest; at the soonest |
早まき see styles |
hayamaki はやまき |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) sowing early |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 100 results for "Early" in Chinese and/or Japanese.Information about this dictionary:
Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.
A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.
Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House
This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).
Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.
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