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There are 6 total results for your 長物 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

長物


长物

see styles
cháng wù
    chang2 wu4
ch`ang wu
    chang wu
 choubutsu; nagamono / chobutsu; nagamono
    ちょうぶつ; ながもの
(literary) things other than the bare necessities of life; item of some value; Taiwan pr. [zhang4 wu4]
(1) something long; (2) (See 無用の長物) useless things; white elephant; boondoggle
excessive possessions

別無長物


别无长物

see styles
bié wú cháng wù
    bie2 wu2 chang2 wu4
pieh wu ch`ang wu
    pieh wu chang wu
to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a poor or frugal life

成長物語

see styles
 seichoumonogatari / sechomonogatari
    せいちょうものがたり
coming-of-age tale

身無長物


身无长物

see styles
shēn wú cháng wù
    shen1 wu2 chang2 wu4
shen wu ch`ang wu
    shen wu chang wu
to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a poor or frugal life

無用の長物

see styles
 muyounochoubutsu / muyonochobutsu
    むようのちょうぶつ
(expression) useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle

国際植物生長物質会議

see styles
 kokusaishokubutsuseichoubusshitsukaigi / kokusaishokubutsusechobusshitsukaigi
    こくさいしょくぶつせいちょうぶっしつかいぎ
(org) International Plant Growth Substance Association; IPGSA; (o) International Plant Growth Substance Association; IPGSA

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

This page contains 6 results for "長物" 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).



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