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Simple Dictionary Definition |
心 see styles |
xīn xin1 hsin haato / hato ハート |
More info & calligraphy: Heart / Mind / Spirit(1) (See 心・こころ・1) heart; mind; spirit; vitality; inner strength; (2) bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); nature; (3) (usu. written as 芯) (See 芯・2) centre; center; core; heart; (4) (See 心臓・1) heart (organ); (5) {astron} (See 二十八宿) Chinese "Heart" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); (6) (archaism) (child. language) friend; (given name) Haato hṛd, hṛdaya 汗栗太 (or 汗栗馱); 紀哩馱 the heart, mind, soul; citta 質多 the heart as the seat of thought or intelligence. In both senses the heart is likened to a lotus. There are various definitions, of which the following are six instances: (1) 肉團心 hṛd, the physical heart of sentient or nonsentient living beings, e. g. men, trees, etc. (2) 集起心 citta, the ālayavijñāna, or totality of mind, and the source of all mental activity. (3) 思量心 manas, the thinking and calculating mind; (4) 緣慮心; 了別心; 慮知心; citta; the discriminating mind; (5) 堅實心 the bhūtatathatā mind, or the permanent mind; (6) 積聚精要心 the mind essence of the sutras. |
簡 简 see styles |
jiǎn jian3 chien kan かん |
More info & calligraphy: Simplicity(1) (See 簡にして要を得る) (ant: 繁・1) simplicity; brevity; (2) letter; note; correspondence; (3) bamboo writing strip (in ancient China); (4) (abbreviation) (See 簡体字) simplified Chinese character; (surname) Kan A tablet, memorandum; to abridge; appoint; examine; abrupt, concise, direct. |
司馬 司马 see styles |
sī mǎ si1 ma3 ssu ma shime しめ |
More info & calligraphy: Sima(hist) (See 六卿) Minister of War (Zhou dynasty China); (given name) Shime |
孫悟空 孙悟空 see styles |
sūn wù kōng sun1 wu4 kong1 sun wu k`ung sun wu kung songokuu / songoku そんごくう |
More info & calligraphy: Sun Wukong / Son Goku(1) (char) Sun Wukong (character in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West); Monkey King; (2) (char) Son Goku (Dragon Ball); (ch) Sun Wukong (character in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West); Monkey King; (ch) Son Goku (Dragon Ball) |
劃 划 see styles |
huà hua4 hua kaku かく |
to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese character (n,n-suf,ctr) stroke (of a kanji, etc.) |
声 see styles |
chika ちか |
(1) {Buddh} (See 六境) voice; sound; (2) {ling} (also read せい) (See 四声,声点) tone (of Chinese character); tone mark; (3) stress (in pronunciation); intonation; accent; (female given name) Chika |
旁 see styles |
páng pang2 p`ang pang tsukuri つくり |
one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc) (e.g. 彡 in 形) (See 偏) right-hand radical of a character A side, beside, adjoining, near. |
点 see styles |
tomoru ともる |
(1) dot; spot; point; speck; mark; (2) mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; score; points; (3) point (in a game); score; goal; run; (4) {geom} point; (5) point; aspect; matter; detail; part; respect; way; viewpoint; (6) (punctuation) mark (e.g. comma, period, decimal point); dot; (7) "dot" stroke (in a Chinese character); (counter) (8) counter for points, marks, goals, etc.; (counter) (9) counter for goods, items, articles of clothing, works of art, etc.; (female given name) Tomoru |
畫 画 see styles |
huà hua4 hua ga |
to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1]); to draw (a line) (variant of 劃|划[hua4]); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃|划[hua4]); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃|划[hua4]) Draw, paint, picture, sketch; devise, fix. |
筆 笔 see styles |
bǐ bi3 pi fumi ふみ |
writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc) (CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]); brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy); (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork; (classifier) stroke of a Chinese character; (classifier) sum of money; financial transaction; piece of business; (literary) to write (with a brush or pen) (1) writing brush; paintbrush; pen; (2) writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; penmanship; something drawn with a brush; (3) (ふで only) writing (composing text); the written word; (counter) (4) (ひつ only) (land) lot; plot; (female given name) Fumi A pen. |
繁 see styles |
fán fan2 fan tokushige とくしげ |
complicated; many; in great numbers; abbr. for 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3], traditional form of Chinese characters (1) (ant: 簡・1) complexity; frequency; trouble; (2) (abbreviation) (See 繁体字) traditional Chinese character; unsimplified Chinese character; (surname) Tokushige many |
訓 训 see styles |
xùn xun4 hsün yomi よみ |
to teach; to train; to admonish; (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule (1) native Japanese reading of a Chinese character; (n,suf) (2) (See 処世訓・しょせいくん) precept; lesson; one's teachings; (female given name) Yomi To teach. |
音 see styles |
yīn yin1 yin riri りり |
sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character) (n,n-suf) (1) sound; noise; (2) (speech) sound; (3) (See 訓・1) Chinese-derived reading of a kanji; (female given name) Riri Sound, note, that which is heard. |
韻 韵 see styles |
yùn yun4 yün hibiki ひびき |
the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology); rhyme; appeal; charm; (literary) pleasant sound (1) (See 韻を踏む) rhyme; (2) {ling} rhyme (of a Chinese character); rime; (personal name) Hibiki vowel |
㐆 see styles |
yǐn yin3 yin |
component in Chinese character 殷[yin1] |
一味 see styles |
yī wèi yi1 wei4 i wei kazumi かずみ |
persistently; stubbornly; blindly (1) clan; partisans; conspirators; gang; ring; crew; (n,vs,vi) (2) participation (e.g. in a plot); (3) one flavour; one charm; (4) one ingredient (in traditional Chinese medicine); (5) {Buddh} universality (of the teachings of Buddha); (given name) Kazumi One, or the same flavour, kind or character, i.e. the Buddha's teaching. |
二簡 二简 see styles |
èr jiǎn er4 jian3 erh chien |
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (abbr. for 第二次漢字簡化方案|第二次汉字简化方案[Di4 er4 Ci4 Han4 zi4 Jian3 hua4 Fang1 an4]) |
人物 see styles |
rén wù ren2 wu4 jen wu jinbutsu じんぶつ |
person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting (1) person; character; figure; personage; man; woman; (2) one's character; one's personality; (3) able person; talented person human possessions |
今音 see styles |
jīn yīn jin1 yin1 chin yin |
modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character |
仮借 see styles |
kashaku; kasha かしゃく; かしゃ |
(noun/participle) (1) (かしゃく only) pardon; extenuation; excuse; (noun/participle) (2) (かしゃく only) borrowing; (3) (one of the six classes of Chinese characters) (See 六書・1) phonetic loan character; loangraph; character used for its pronunciation |
会意 see styles |
kaii / kai かいい |
(one of the six classes of Chinese characters) (See 六書・1) compound ideograph; character made up of meaningful parts |
作字 see styles |
tsukuriji つくりじ sakuji さくじ |
(1) (archaism) native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period); (2) made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; (3) creating a character with a group of people; (noun/participle) (1) designing a font; (2) creating a new character not currently available |
俗字 see styles |
sú zì su2 zi4 su tzu zokuji ぞくじ |
nonstandard form of a Chinese character informal variant of a Chinese character; popular form of a Chinese character |
倭訓 see styles |
wakun わくん |
Japanese reading of a Chinese character |
假借 see styles |
jiǎ jiè jia3 jie4 chia chieh |
to make use of; to use something as pretext; under false pretenses; under the guise of; masquerading as; lenient; tolerant; loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan |
偏旁 see styles |
piān páng pian1 pang2 p`ien p`ang pien pang henbou / henbo へんぼう |
component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part) (1) left and right kanji radicals; (2) (colloquialism) kanji radical positions |
初文 see styles |
chū wén chu1 wen2 ch`u wen chu wen |
archaic (and simpler) form of a Chinese character |
双喜 see styles |
souki / soki そうき |
(represented by the 囍 character) double happiness (Chinese ornamental symbol) |
反切 see styles |
fǎn qiè fan3 qie4 fan ch`ieh fan chieh hansetsu はんせつ |
traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone The system of indicating the initial and final sounds of a character by two others, ascribed to Sun Yen 孫炎 in the third century A D., arising out of the translit. of Sanskrit terms in Buddhist translation. |
古字 see styles |
gǔ zì gu3 zi4 ku tzu furuji ふるじ |
ancient character; archaic form of a Chinese character ancient character (esp. Chinese); ancient writing; (surname) Furuji |
古音 see styles |
gǔ yīn gu3 yin1 ku yin koon こおん |
ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character; classical speech sounds ko-on; ancient reading; reading of a kanji based on Zhou, Han and Wei dynasty Chinese |
和訓 see styles |
wakun わくん |
Japanese reading of a Chinese character; (given name) Wakun |
單字 单字 see styles |
dān zì dan1 zi4 tan tzu |
single Chinese character; (Tw) word (of a foreign language) |
四六 see styles |
shiroku しろく |
(1) four and six (minutes, etc.); (2) twenty-four (product of four and six); (3) (abbreviation) (See 四六判) shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); (4) (abbreviation) (See 四六文) elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words; (given name) Shiroku |
國字 国字 see styles |
guó zì guo2 zi4 kuo tzu |
Chinese character (Hanzi); the native script used to write a nation's language See: 国字 |
声点 see styles |
shouten / shoten しょうてん |
tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a Chinese character to indicate the tone |
字典 see styles |
zì diǎn zi4 dian3 tzu tien jiten じてん |
Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary; CL:本[ben3] character dictionary; kanji dictionary |
字彙 字汇 see styles |
zì huì zi4 hui4 tzu hui jii / ji じい |
(computer) character repertoire; glossary, lexicon dictionary of Chinese characters |
字形 see styles |
zì xíng zi4 xing2 tzu hsing jikei / jike じけい |
form of a Chinese character; variant of 字型[zi4 xing2] character style; character form |
字書 字书 see styles |
zì shū zi4 shu1 tzu shu jisho じしょ |
character book (i.e. school primer) (1) dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary; (2) (See 辞書・1) dictionary |
字林 see styles |
zì lín zi4 lin2 tzu lin jirin じりん |
Zilin, Chinese character dictionary with 12,824 entries from ca. 400 AD kanji dictionary |
字根 see styles |
zì gēn zi4 gen1 tzu ken |
component of a Chinese character; (linguistics) word root; etymon |
字母 see styles |
zì mǔ zi4 mu3 tzu mu jibo じぼ |
letter (of the alphabet); CL:個|个[ge4] (1) letter (of an alphabet); syllabic character; (2) (See 母型) matrix; printing type; (3) {ling} (See 三十六字母) representative character of a Middle Chinese initial consonant The Sanskrit alphabet of 42, 47, or 50 letters, the 'Siddham' 悉曇 consisting of 35 體文 consonants and 12 摩多 vowels. The 字母表 deals with the alphabet in 1 juan. The 字母品 is an abbreviation of 文殊問經字母品. |
字源 see styles |
zì yuán zi4 yuan2 tzu yüan jigen じげん |
etymology (of a non-Chinese word); origin of a character (1) origin of a character; (2) composition of a Chinese character; (3) Chinese character from which a kana character is derived |
字画 see styles |
jikaku じかく |
strokes in a Chinese character; stroke count of a Chinese character |
字眼 see styles |
zì yǎn zi4 yan3 tzu yen jigan じがん |
wording decisive character (Chinese poetry) |
字音 see styles |
zì yīn zi4 yin1 tzu yin jion じおん |
phonetic value of a character (See 音読み,字訓) Chinese-derived reading of a kanji |
字頭 字头 see styles |
zì tóu zi4 tou2 tzu t`ou tzu tou |
single-character headword (in a dictionary); first character of a Chinese word; the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character; the initial of a Chinese syllable |
小篆 see styles |
xiǎo zhuàn xiao3 zhuan4 hsiao chuan shouten / shoten しょうてん |
the small or lesser seal, the form of Chinese character standardized by the Qin dynasty (See 六体) small seal script (arising during China's Warring States period) |
廟号 see styles |
byougou / byogo びょうごう |
(1) temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty); (2) name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.) |
廣韻 广韵 see styles |
guǎng yùn guang3 yun4 kuang yün |
Guangyun, Chinese rime dictionary 韻書|韵书[yun4 shu1] from 11th century, containing 26,194 single-character entries |
形声 see styles |
keisei / kese けいせい |
(one of the six classes of Chinese characters) (See 六書・1) phono-semantic character; semasio-phonetic character; character consisting of a phonetic and a semantic element |
形聲 形声 see styles |
xíng shēng xing2 sheng1 hsing sheng |
ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character See: 形声 |
愚公 see styles |
gukou / guko ぐこう |
(char) Yu Gong (main character in the 4th century BC Chinese fable "The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains"); Yúgōng; Yukong; (ch) Yu Gong (main character in the 4th century BC Chinese fable "The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains"); Yúgōng; Yukong |
或體 或体 see styles |
huò tǐ huo4 ti3 huo t`i huo ti |
variant Chinese character; alternative form of a Chinese character |
指事 see styles |
zhǐ shì zhi3 shi4 chih shih shiji しじ |
ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down; also known as self-explanatory character (one of the six classes of Chinese characters) (See 六書・1) logogram; indicative; character depicting an abstract idea Zhishi |
文讀 文读 see styles |
wén dú wen2 du2 wen tu |
literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character |
方格 see styles |
fāng gé fang1 ge2 fang ko |
checked pattern; square box character (in Chinese text) indicating an illegible character |
會意 会意 see styles |
huì yì hui4 yi4 hui i |
combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书[liu4 shu1] of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements; also known as joint ideogram or associative compound; to comprehend without being told explicitly; to cotton on; knowing (smile, glance etc) See: 会意 |
本字 see styles |
běn zì ben3 zi4 pen tzu honji ほんじ |
original form of a Chinese character (1) kanji (as opposed to kana); (2) original form of a Chinese character (as opposed to a simplified or abbreviated form); (3) Chinese character from which another Chinese character derives |
正音 see styles |
zhèng yīn zheng4 yin1 cheng yin masane まさね |
standard pronunciation; to correct sb's pronunciation correct Chinese (on) pronunciation of a character; (given name) Masane |
正體 正体 see styles |
zhèng tǐ zheng4 ti3 cheng t`i cheng ti shōtai |
standard form (of a Chinese character); plain font style (as opposed to bold or italic); printed style (as opposed to cursive); (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters substance |
漢字 汉字 see styles |
hàn zì han4 zi4 han tzu kanji かんじ |
Chinese character(s) kanji; Chinese character; (personal name) Kanji |
熟字 see styles |
shú zì shu2 zi4 shu tzu jukuji じゅくじ |
familiar words; known Chinese character (See 熟語・1) kanji compound |
略字 see styles |
lüè zì lu:e4 zi4 lu:e tzu ryakuji りゃくじ |
abbreviated character; simplified character (1) abbreviated form of a Chinese character; simplified character; (2) (See 略語) acronym; abbreviation |
異體 异体 see styles |
yì tǐ yi4 ti3 i t`i i ti i tai |
variant form (of a Chinese character) separate essence |
白讀 白读 see styles |
bái dú bai2 du2 pai tu |
colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character |
筆画 see styles |
hikkaku ひっかく |
stroke in a Chinese character |
筆畫 笔画 see styles |
bǐ huà bi3 hua4 pi hua |
strokes of a Chinese character |
筆順 笔顺 see styles |
bǐ shùn bi3 shun4 pi shun hitsujun ひつじゅん |
stroke order (when writing Chinese character) stroke order (esp. of a Chinese character) |
繁体 see styles |
hantai はんたい |
(abbreviation) (See 繁体字) traditional Chinese character; unsimplified Chinese character |
聲旁 声旁 see styles |
shēng páng sheng1 pang2 sheng p`ang sheng pang |
phonetic component of Chinese character |
聲母 声母 see styles |
shēng mǔ sheng1 mu3 sheng mu |
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable; the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1]) See: 声母 |
聲符 声符 see styles |
shēng fú sheng1 fu2 sheng fu |
phonetic component of a Chinese character (e.g. the component 青[qing] in 清[qing1]) See: 声符 |
聲類 声类 see styles |
shēng lèi sheng1 lei4 sheng lei |
Shenglei, the earliest Chinese rime dictionary with 11,520 single-character entries, released in 3rd century (was not preserved to this day) |
華字 see styles |
kaji かじ |
Chinese character |
訓讀 训读 see styles |
xùn dú xun4 du2 hsün tu |
a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn"); to pronounce a word using such a reading; (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".) |
語音 语音 see styles |
yǔ yīn yu3 yin1 yü yin goon ごおん |
speech sounds; pronunciation; colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character; phonetic; audio; voice; (Internet) to voice chat; voice message sound of a word; sounds of speech; phoneme phonemes |
諧声 see styles |
kaisei / kaise かいせい |
(1) vocal harmony; harmonious voice; harmonious voices; (2) (one of the six classes of Chinese characters) (See 形声) phono-semantic character; semasio-phonetic character; character consisting of a phonetic and a semantic element |
讀法 读法 see styles |
dú fǎ du2 fa3 tu fa |
pronunciation; reading (of a Chinese character) |
讀破 读破 see styles |
dú pò du2 po4 tu p`o tu po |
to read extensively and thoroughly; nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. the reading [hao4] in 愛好|爱好[ai4 hao4] rather than the usual [hao3] |
讀音 读音 see styles |
dú yīn du2 yin1 tu yin |
pronunciation; literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character |
象形 see styles |
xiàng xíng xiang4 xing2 hsiang hsing ogata おがた |
pictogram; one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters; Chinese character derived from a picture; sometimes called hieroglyph (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) hieroglyphics; (2) (one of the six classes of Chinese characters) (See 六書・1) pictograph; character representing a picture of an object; (surname) Ogata |
転注 see styles |
tenchuu / tenchu てんちゅう |
(one of the six classes of Chinese characters) (See 六書・1) derivative character; derivative cognate; character to which an extended meaning is assigned |
轉注 转注 see styles |
zhuǎn zhù zhuan3 zhu4 chuan chu |
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character with meanings influenced by other words; sometimes called mutually explanatory character |
造字 see styles |
zào zì zao4 zi4 tsao tzu zouji / zoji ぞうじ |
to create Chinese characters; cf Six Methods of forming Chinese characters 六書|六书[liu4 shu1] kanji formation; character coinage |
部首 see styles |
bù shǒu bu4 shou3 pu shou bushu ぶしゅ |
radical of a Chinese character radical (of a kanji character) |
鄭碼 郑码 see styles |
zhèng mǎ zheng4 ma3 cheng ma |
Zheng coding; original Chinese character coding based on component shapes, created by Zheng Yili 鄭易里|郑易里[Zheng4 Yi4 li3], underlying most stroke-based Chinese input methods; also called common coding 字根通用碼|字根通用码[zi4 gen1 tong1 yong4 ma3] |
錯字 错字 see styles |
cuò zì cuo4 zi4 ts`o tzu tso tzu |
incorrect character; typo (in Chinese text) |
集韻 集韵 see styles |
jí yùn ji2 yun4 chi yün |
Jiyun, Chinese rime dictionary with 53,525 single-character entries, published in 11th century |
離婁 see styles |
rirou / riro りろう |
(personal name) Lilou (character with superior eyesight that appears in ancient Chinese folklore); Lizhu |
離朱 see styles |
rishu りしゅ |
(personal name) Lizhu (character with superior eyesight that appears in ancient Chinese folklore); Lilou |
音符 see styles |
yīn fú yin1 fu2 yin fu onpu おんぷ |
(music) note; phonetic component of a Chinese character; phonetic symbol; phonogram (1) musical note; note symbol; (2) phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.); (3) (See 意符) part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning); (female given name) Onpu |
音韻 音韵 see styles |
yīn yùn yin1 yun4 yin yün onin おんいん |
music; rhyme and rhythm; initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character; phoneme (1) {ling} (See 音素) phoneme; (2) vocal sound; tone (quality); timbre; (3) initial and final (in Chinese syllable structure) tone |
韻尾 韵尾 see styles |
yùn wěi yun4 wei3 yün wei inbi いんび |
(phonology) coda, the part of a syllable that follows its vocalic nucleus (e.g. "u" in kòu or "n" in běn) yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character) |
類篇 类篇 see styles |
lèi piān lei4 pian1 lei p`ien lei pien |
Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] et al in 11th century |
點畫 点画 see styles |
diǎn huà dian3 hua4 tien hua |
strokes of a Chinese character See: 点画 |
作り字 see styles |
tsukuriji つくりじ |
(1) (archaism) native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period); (2) made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; (3) creating a character with a group of people |
俗體字 俗体字 see styles |
sú tǐ zì su2 ti3 zi4 su t`i tzu su ti tzu |
nonstandard form of a Chinese character |
假借字 see styles |
jiǎ jiè zì jia3 jie4 zi4 chia chieh tzu |
loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 100 results for "Chinese Character for Sy" 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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