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Simple Dictionary Definition |
命日 see styles |
meinichi / menichi めいにち |
anniversary of a person's death; monthly return of the date of someone's death |
和暖 see styles |
hé nuǎn he2 nuan3 ho nuan kanon かのん |
pleasantly warm (weather) (female given name) Kanon |
咒咀 see styles |
zhòu jǔ zhou4 ju3 chou chü jusho |
咒殺; 咒起死鬼 (or 咒起屍鬼) An incantation for raising the vetāla 畏陀羅 or corpse-demons to cause the death of another person. |
哀悼 see styles |
āi dào ai1 dao4 ai tao aitou / aito あいとう |
to grieve over sb's death; to lament sb's death; mourning (n,vs,vt,adj-no) condolence; regret; tribute; sorrow; sympathy; lament |
哽死 see styles |
gěng sǐ geng3 si3 keng ssu |
(intransitive) to choke to death |
唱寂 see styles |
chàng jí chang4 ji2 ch`ang chi chang chi shōjaku |
To cry out nirvāṇa, as the Buddha is said to have done at his death. |
喘ぐ see styles |
aegu あえぐ |
(v5g,vi) (1) to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; (v5g,vi) (2) to suffer; to struggle |
喘息 see styles |
chuǎn xī chuan3 xi1 ch`uan hsi chuan hsi zensoku ぜんそく |
to gasp for breath; to take a breather (noun - becomes adjective with の) asthma; phthisis |
喘氣 喘气 see styles |
chuǎn qì chuan3 qi4 ch`uan ch`i chuan chi |
to breathe deeply; to pant; to gasp; to take a breather; to catch one's breath |
喘鳴 see styles |
zenmei / zenme ぜんめい |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) stridor; wheezing; noisy breathing |
喜喪 喜丧 see styles |
xǐ sāng xi3 sang1 hsi sang |
peaceful death at a very advanced age |
喫う see styles |
suu / su すう |
(transitive verb) (1) to smoke; to breathe in; to inhale; (2) to suck; to sip; to slurp; (3) to absorb; to soak up; (4) to kiss |
噎死 see styles |
yē sǐ ye1 si3 yeh ssu |
(intransitive) to choke to death |
噩耗 see styles |
è hào e4 hao4 o hao |
news of sb's death; sad news |
嚥氣 咽气 see styles |
yàn qì yan4 qi4 yen ch`i yen chi |
to die; to breathe one's last |
囘忌 回忌 see styles |
huí jì hui2 ji4 hui chi kaiki |
The days on which the day of death is remembered. |
四山 see styles |
sì shān si4 shan1 ssu shan yotsuyama よつやま |
(place-name) Yotsuyama Like four closing-in mountains are birth, age, sickness, and death; another group is age, sickness, death, and decay (衰, i. e. of wealth, honours, etc., or 無常 impermanence). |
四怨 see styles |
sì yuàn si4 yuan4 ssu yüan shion |
The four enemies— the passions-and-delusion māras, death māra, the five-skandhas māras, and the supreme māra-king. |
四有 see styles |
sì yǒu si4 you3 ssu yu shiu しう |
{Buddh} the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo four states of life |
四気 see styles |
shiki しき |
weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter) |
四相 see styles |
sì xiàng si4 xiang4 ssu hsiang shisou / shiso しそう |
(1) {Buddh} four essential elements of existence (birth, ageing, illness and death); (can act as adjective) (2) {math} four-phase; quadri-phase The four avasthā, or states of all phenomena, i. e. 生住異滅 birth, being, change (i. e. decay), and death; also 四有爲相. There are several groups, e. g. 果報四相 birth, age, disease, death. Also 藏識四相 of the Awakening of Faith referring to the initiation, continuation, change, and cessation of the ālaya-vijñāna. Also 我人四相 The ideas: (1) that there is an ego; (2) that man is different from other organisms; (3) that all the living are produced by the skandhas; (4) that life is limited to the organism. Also 智境四相 dealing differently with the four last headings 我; 人; 衆生; and 壽相. |
四苦 see styles |
sì kǔ si4 ku3 ssu k`u ssu ku shiku しく |
{Buddh} the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death) The four miseries, or sufferings — birth, age, disease, and death. |
四蛇 see styles |
sì shé si4 she2 ssu she shida |
idem 四毒蛇. The Fanyimingyi under this heading gives the parable of a man who fled from the two bewildering forms of life and death, and climbed down a rope (of life) 命根, into the well of impermanence 無常, where two mice, night and day, gnawed the rattan rope; on the four sides four snakes 四蛇 sought to poison him, i. e. the 四大 or four elements of his physical nature); below were three dragons 三毒龍 breathing fire and trying to seize him. On looking up he saw that two 象 elephants (darkness and light) had come to the mouth of the well; he was in despair, when a bee flew by and dropped some honey (the five desires 五欲) into his mouth, which he ate and entirely forgot his peril. |
回忌 see styles |
kaiki かいき |
(n-suf,n) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (abbr. of 年回忌) (See 三回忌) death anniversary; anniversary of a person's death |
回暖 see styles |
huí nuǎn hui2 nuan3 hui nuan |
(of the weather) to warm up again |
国忌 see styles |
kokki こっき |
anniversary of the death of an emperor or empress |
圓寂 圆寂 see styles |
yuán jì yuan2 ji4 yüan chi enjaku |
death; to pass away (of Buddhist monks, nuns etc) Perfect rest, i.e. parinirvāṇa; the perfection of all virtue and the elimination of all evil, release from the miseries of transmigration and entrance into the fullest joy. |
圓融 圆融 see styles |
yuán róng yuan2 rong2 yüan jung enyū |
accommodating; (Buddhism) completely integrated Complete combination; the absolute in the relative and vice versa; the identity of apparent contraries; perfect harmony among all differences, as in water and waves, passion and enlightenment, transmigration and nirvāṇa, or life and death, etc.; all are of the same fundamental nature, all are bhūtatathatā, and bhūtatathatā is all; waves are one with waves, and water is one with water, and water and wave are one. |
土色 see styles |
tsuchiiro / tsuchiro つちいろ |
earth (color, colour); ashen; deathly pale |
圧死 see styles |
asshi あっし |
(n,vs,vi) death by crushing; being crushed to death |
圧殺 see styles |
assatsu あっさつ |
(noun, transitive verb) (1) crushing to death; (noun, transitive verb) (2) crushing (hope, freedom, etc.); suppression; quashing; stifling |
均濕 均湿 see styles |
jun shī jun1 shi1 chün shih |
to moisten evenly (e.g. in tanning leather) |
垂危 see styles |
chuí wēi chui2 wei1 ch`ui wei chui wei |
close to death; life-threatening (illness) |
堰板 see styles |
sekiita / sekita せきいた |
sheeting; sheathing board; cover |
報條 报条 see styles |
bào tiáo bao4 tiao2 pao t`iao pao tiao |
report of success from a candidate to the imperial examination (old); list of deaths |
塔中 see styles |
tatsuchuu / tatsuchu たつちゅう |
(Buddhist term) sub-temple, esp. a Zen one founded to commemorate the death of a high priest; (place-name) Tatsuchuu |
塔頭 塔头 see styles |
tǎ tóu ta3 tou2 t`a t`ou ta tou tōtō たっちゅう |
(Buddhist term) sub-temple, esp. a Zen one founded to commemorate the death of a high priest stūpa hall |
墜亡 坠亡 see styles |
zhuì wáng zhui4 wang2 chui wang |
to fall to one's death |
墜死 see styles |
tsuishi ついし |
(n,vs,vi) falling to one's death |
墮樓 堕楼 see styles |
duò lóu duo4 lou2 to lou |
to jump to one's death |
壓死 压死 see styles |
yā sǐ ya1 si3 ya ssu |
to crush to death |
変死 see styles |
henshi へんし |
(n,vs,vi) unnatural death; accidental death; violent death |
夏令 see styles |
xià lìng xia4 ling4 hsia ling karei / kare かれい |
summer; summer weather (female given name) Karei |
夏空 see styles |
natsura なつら |
summer sky; summery weather; clear, blazing summer weather; (female given name) Natsura |
外郎 see styles |
uirou / uiro ういろう |
(1) (kana only) sweet rice jelly; (2) (kana only) (orig. meaning) Edo-period herbal medicine (used as an antitussive and a breath freshener); (s,m) Uirou |
夜爪 see styles |
yozume よづめ |
cutting one's nails at night (said to cause one to miss the deathbed of one's parents) |
大命 see styles |
dà mìng da4 ming4 ta ming taimei / taime たいめい |
imperial command; royal command The great order, command, destiny, or fate, i.e. life-and-death, mortality, reincarnation. |
大夜 see styles |
dà yè da4 ye4 ta yeh daiya |
the second half of the night; early morning (cf. 小夜[xiao3 ye4], evening); (fig.) eternal rest; death; (Buddhism) the night before the cremation of a monk The great night, i.e. that before the funeral pyre of a monk is lighted; also 迨夜; 宿夜. |
大天 see styles |
dà tiān da4 tian1 ta t`ien ta tien daiten だいてん |
(surname) Daiten Mahādeva. 摩訶提婆. (1) A former incarnation of Śākyamuni as a Cakravartī. (2) A title of Maheśvara. (3) An able supporter of the Mahāsāṃghikaḥ, whose date is given as about a hundred years after the Buddha's death, but he is also described as a favorite of Aśoka, with whom he is associated as persecutor of the Sthavirāḥ, the head of which escaped into Kashmir. If from the latter school sprang the Mahāyāna, it may account for the detestation in which Mahādeva is held by the Mahāyānists. An account of his wickedness and heresies is given in 西域記 3 and in 婆沙論 99. |
大祥 see styles |
dà xiáng da4 xiang2 ta hsiang daishou / daisho だいしょう |
see 大祥區|大祥区[Da4 xiang2 Qu1] (abbreviation) (See 大祥忌・だいしょうき) second anniversary of a person's death |
大羽 see styles |
hiroha ひろは |
contour feather; quill feather; (female given name) Hiroha |
大辟 see styles |
dà pì da4 pi4 ta p`i ta pi taiheki たいへき |
(literary) death sentence; decapitation (archaism) severe punishment; death penalty |
天候 see styles |
tiān hòu tian1 hou4 t`ien hou tien hou tenkou / tenko てんこう |
weather weather |
天兒 天儿 see styles |
tiān r tian1 r5 t`ien r tien r amako あまこ |
the weather (surname) Amako |
天冷 see styles |
tiān lěng tian1 leng3 t`ien leng tien leng |
it's cold (weather) |
天時 天时 see styles |
tiān shí tian1 shi2 t`ien shih tien shih amaji あまじ |
the time; the right time; weather conditions; destiny; course of time; heaven's natural order (surname) Amaji |
天気 see styles |
tenki てんき |
(1) weather; (2) fair weather; fine weather |
天氣 天气 see styles |
tiān qì tian1 qi4 t`ien ch`i tien chi |
weather |
天色 see styles |
tiān sè tian1 se4 t`ien se tien se tenshoku てんしょく |
color of the sky; time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky; weather weather; sky colour; sky color |
天親 天亲 see styles |
tiān qīn tian1 qin1 t`ien ch`in tien chin amachika あまちか |
one's flesh and blood (surname) Amachika Vasubandhu, 伐蘇畔度; 婆藪槃豆 (or 婆修槃豆) (or 婆修槃陀) 'akin to the gods ', or 世親 'akin to the world'. Vasubandhu is described as a native of Puruṣapura, or Peshawar, by Eitel as of Rājagriha, born '900 years after the nirvana', or about A. D. 400; Takakusu suggests 420-500, Peri puts his death not later than 350. In Eitel's day the date of his death was put definitely at A. D. 117. Vasubandhu's great work, the Abhidharmakośa, is only one of his thirty-six works. He is said to be the younger brother of Asaṅga of the Yogācāra school, by whom he was converted from the Sarvāstivāda school of thought to that of Mahāyāna and of Nāgārjuna. On his conversion he would have 'cut out his tongue' for its past heresy, but was dissuaded by his brother, who bade him use the same tongue to correct his errors, whereupon he wrote the 唯識論 and other Mahayanist works. He is called the twenty-first patriarch and died in Ayodhya. |
天象 see styles |
tiān xiàng tian1 xiang4 t`ien hsiang tien hsiang tenshou / tensho てんしょう |
meteorological or astronomical phenomenon (e.g. rainbow or eclipse) weather; astronomical phenomena |
天道 see styles |
tiān dào tian1 dao4 t`ien tao tien tao tendou / tendo てんどう |
natural law; heavenly law; weather (dialect) (1) (てんとう only) the sun; (2) god of heaven and the earth; (3) laws governing the heavens; (4) {astron} celestial path; celestial motion; (5) {Buddh} (See 六道) deva realm (svarga); (surname, given name) Tendō deva-gati, or devasopāna, 天趣. (1) The highest of the six paths 六道, the realm of devas, i. e. the eighteen heavens of form and four of formlessness. A place of enjoyment, where the meritorious enjoy the fruits of good karma, but not a place of progress toward bodhisattva perfection. (2) The Dao of Heaven, natural law, cosmic energy; according to the Daoists, the origin and law of all things. |
夭折 see styles |
yāo zhé yao1 zhe2 yao che yousetsu / yosetsu ようせつ |
to die young or prematurely; to come to a premature end; to be aborted prematurely (n,vs,vi) premature death |
夭死 see styles |
youshi / yoshi ようし |
(noun/participle) premature death |
夭逝 see styles |
yousei / yose ようせい |
(n,vs,vi) premature death |
套子 see styles |
tào zi tao4 zi5 t`ao tzu tao tzu |
sheath; case; cover; conventional method; cliché; trick; (coll.) condom |
好天 see styles |
kouten / koten こうてん |
fine weather |
好晴 see styles |
yoshiharu よしはる |
clear weather; good weather; (given name) Yoshiharu |
妄語 妄语 see styles |
wàng yǔ wang4 yu3 wang yü mougo; bougo(rk) / mogo; bogo(rk) もうご; ぼうご(rk) |
to tell lies; to talk nonsense; lies; nonsense {Buddh} (See 妄語戒) falsehood (as one of the five sins in Buddhism); lie The commandment against lying. either as slander, or false boasting, or deception; for this the 智度論 gives ten evil results on reincarnation: (1) stinking breath; (2) good spirits avoid him, as also do men; (3) none believes him even when telling the truth; (4) wise men never admit him to their deliberations: etc. |
婉稱 婉称 see styles |
wǎn chēng wan3 cheng1 wan ch`eng wan cheng |
euphemism (tactful expression for something unpleasant such as death) |
嬌喘 娇喘 see styles |
jiāo chuǎn jiao1 chuan3 chiao ch`uan chiao chuan |
faint breathing |
孕穗 see styles |
yùn suì yun4 sui4 yün sui |
(grain farming) booting (i.e. the swelling of the leaf sheath due to panicle growth) |
存亡 see styles |
cún wáng cun2 wang2 ts`un wang tsun wang sonbou / sonbo そんぼう |
to live or die; to exist or perish life or death; existence; destiny |
存否 see styles |
zonpi; sonpi ぞんぴ; そんぴ |
(whether) existent or non-existent; life or death |
孫武 孙武 see styles |
sūn wǔ sun1 wu3 sun wu sonbu そんぶ |
Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1] (person) Sun Tzu (Chinese general and strategist, 544-496 BCE) |
害死 see styles |
hài sǐ hai4 si3 hai ssu |
to kill; to cause death; to do sb to death |
寂滅 寂灭 see styles |
jì miè ji4 mie4 chi mieh jakumetsu じゃくめつ |
to die out; to fade away; nirvana (Buddhism) (n,vs,vi) (1) {Buddh} achieving nirvana (san:); (n,vs,vi) (2) death Calmness and extinction, nirvāṇa. |
寒い see styles |
samui(p); sabui さむい(P); さぶい |
(adjective) (1) (ant: 暑い・1) cold (e.g. weather); (adjective) (2) uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull; weak; corny |
寒天 see styles |
hán tiān han2 tian1 han t`ien han tien kanten かんてん |
chilly weather; (loanword from Japanese) agar-agar (1) freezing weather; cold weather; (2) {food} agar-agar; vegetable gelatin |
寒害 see styles |
kangai かんがい |
damage from cold weather; frost damage |
寒空 see styles |
samuzora さむぞら |
wintry sky; cold weather (in winter); wintry weather |
寒蟬 寒蝉 see styles |
hán chán han2 chan2 han ch`an han chan |
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself); Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia See: 寒蝉 |
寝息 see styles |
neiki / neki ねいき |
breathing of a sleeping person |
射殺 射杀 see styles |
shè shā she4 sha1 she sha shasatsu しゃさつ |
to shoot dead (with a gun, or bow and arrow) (noun, transitive verb) shooting to death |
尉繚 尉缭 see styles |
wèi liáo wei4 liao2 wei liao |
Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5] text on military strategy |
尋死 寻死 see styles |
xún sǐ xun2 si3 hsün ssu |
to attempt suicide; to court death |
導引 导引 see styles |
dǎo yǐn dao3 yin3 tao yin douin / doin どういん |
same as 引導|引导[yin3 dao3]; Dao Yin, Daoist exercises involving breathing, stretching and self-massage (1) guidance; showing the way; (2) (See あん摩・あんま・1) massage; (3) tao yin; Taoist Neigong; Taoist exercises To lead. |
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. |
小口 see styles |
koguchi こぐち |
(1) cut end; edge (of a page, etc.); (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) (ant: 大口・おおぐち・3) small amount; small quantity; small sum; (3) beginning; clue; (4) (See 虎口) tiger's den; jaws of death; dangerous place; (place-name, surname) Koguchi |
小康 see styles |
xiǎo kāng xiao3 kang1 hsiao k`ang hsiao kang shoukou / shoko しょうこう |
moderately affluent; well-off; a period of peace and prosperity (1) lull; breathing spell; respite; (2) remission (of an illness); becoming stable |
小憩 see styles |
xiǎo qì xiao3 qi4 hsiao ch`i hsiao chi shoukei / shoke しょうけい |
to rest for a bit; to take a breather (noun/participle) short break; breather; brief recess; rest |
小祥 see styles |
shoushou / shosho しょうしょう |
(abbreviation) (See 小祥忌・しょうしょうき) first anniversary of a person's death |
小竹 see styles |
shino しの |
bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.); (surname, female given name) Shino |
小閑 see styles |
koshizu こしず |
short interval of leisure; short break or breather; lull; (personal name) Koshizu |
少憩 see styles |
shoukei / shoke しょうけい |
(noun/participle) short break; breather; brief recess; rest |
少閑 see styles |
shoukan / shokan しょうかん |
short interval of leisure; short break or breather; lull |
少関 see styles |
shoukan / shokan しょうかん |
short interval of leisure; short break or breather; lull |
尾羽 see styles |
wěi yǔ wei3 yu3 wei yü obane おばね |
tail feathers (See 尾羽打ち枯らす・おはうちからす) tail and feathers; (place-name) Obane |
居合 see styles |
iawase いあわせ |
iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards; (place-name) Iawase |
屏息 see styles |
bǐng xī bing3 xi1 ping hsi heisoku / hesoku へいそく |
hold one's breath (noun/participle) bated breath; being cowed into silence |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 100 results for "Eath" 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
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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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