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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

沐浴

see styles
mù yù
    mu4 yu4
mu yü
 mokuyoku
    もくよく
to take a bath; to bathe; to immerse
(n,vs,vi) (1) bathing (of an infant); (n,vs,vi) (2) ablution; (n,vs,vi) (3) (archaism) receiving a blessing
to bathe

福氣


福气

see styles
fú qi
    fu2 qi5
fu ch`i
    fu chi
good fortune; a blessing

北叟失馬


北叟失马

see styles
běi sǒu shī mǎ
    bei3 sou3 shi1 ma3
pei sou shih ma
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise; it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

因禍得福


因祸得福

see styles
yīn huò dé fú
    yin1 huo4 de2 fu2
yin huo te fu
to have some good come out of a bad situation (idiom); a blessing in disguise

塞翁失馬


塞翁失马

see styles
sài wēng shī mǎ
    sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3
sai weng shih ma
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise; it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

塞翁失馬安知非福


塞翁失马安知非福

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sài wēng shī mǎ ān zhī fēi fú
    sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3 an1 zhi1 fei1 fu2
sai weng shih ma an chih fei fu
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise; it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good; also written 塞翁失馬焉知非福|塞翁失马焉知非福

塞翁失馬焉知非福


塞翁失马焉知非福

see styles
sài wēng shī mǎ yān zhī fēi fú
    sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3 yan1 zhi1 fei1 fu2
sai weng shih ma yen chih fei fu
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise; it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

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

This page contains 7 results for "A Blessing" 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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