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百歲光陰如過客
My system broke these into the following words, and cobbled together results for you:
(百歲)(百)(歲)(光陰)(光)(陰)(如)(過客)(過)(客) 
Characters shown in parentheses are variants of the characters you searched for.
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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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bǎi
    bai3
pai
 momo
    もも
hundred; numerous; all kinds of
(numeric) (1) (poetic term) hundred; 100; (prefix noun) (2) (poetic term) (a great) many; (surname, female given name) Momo
sata; a hundred, all.

百歲


百岁

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bǎi suì
    bai3 sui4
pai sui
 hyaku sai
one hundred years


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suì
    sui4
sui
 sai
classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
Vatsara, a year; cf. 臘 19 strokes.

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guāng
    guang1
kuang
 rei / re
    れい

More info & calligraphy:

Light / Bright / Shine
light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
(1) light; (2) illumination; ray; beam; gleam; glow; (3) happiness; hope; (4) influence; power; (5) vision; eyesight; (6) (abbreviation) (See 光回線) optical fiber; optical fibre; (female given name) Rei
光明 prabha, light, brightness, splendour, to illuminate.

光陰


光阴

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guāng yīn
    guang1 yin1
kuang yin
 kouin / koin
    こういん
time available
time; Father Time
time (and tide)


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yīn
    yin1
yin
 kage
    かげ
overcast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia
(archaism) female private parts; female genitals; (surname) Kage
Shade, dark, the shades, the negative as opposed to the positive principle, female, the moon, back, secret. In Buddhism it is the phenomenal, as obscuring the true nature of things; also the aggregation of phenomenal things resulting in births and deaths, hence it is used as a translation like 蘊 q.v. for skandha, the 五陰 being the five skandhas or aggregates.

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    ru2
ju
 yuki
    ゆき
as; as if; such as
{Buddh} (See 真如) tathata (the ultimate nature of all things); (female given name) Yuki
tathā 多陀; 但他 (or 怛他), so, thus, in such manner, like, as. It is used in the sense of the absolute, the 空 śūnya, which is 諸佛之實相 the reality of all Buddhas; hence 如 ru is 賃相 the undifferentiated whole of things, the ultimate reality; it is 諸法之性 the nature of all things, hence it connotes 法性 faxing which is 眞實之際極 the ultimate of reality, or the absolute, and therefore connotes 實際 ultimate reality. The ultimate nature of all things being 如 ru, the one undivided same, it also connotes 理 li, the principle or theory behind all things, and this 理 li universal law, being the 眞實 truth or ultimate reality; 如 ru is termed 眞如 bhūtatathatā, the real so, or suchness, or reality, the ultimate or the all, i. e. the 一如 yiru. In regard to 如 ju as 理 li the Prajñā-pāramitā puṇḍarīka makes it the 中 zhong, neither matter nor nothingness. It is also used in the ordinary sense of so, like, as (cf yathā).


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guo
    guo5
kuo
 masaru
    まさる
(experienced action marker)
(prefix) (1) surplus-; excess-; over-; (prefix) (2) per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents); (surname) Masaru
To pass; past; gone; transgression error.

過客


过客

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guò kè
    guo4 ke4
kuo k`o
    kuo ko
 kakaku
    かかく
passing traveler; transient guest; sojourner
traveller (passing through); traveler

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    ke4
k`o
    ko
 kiyaku
    きやく
customer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
(1) guest; visitor; (2) customer; client; shopper; spectator; audience; tourist; sightseer; passenger; (counter) (3) counter for containers used to entertain guests; (surname) Kiyaku
A guest, visitor, traveller, outsider, merchant.

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

This page contains 10 results for "百歲光陰如過客" 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.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

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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