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字頭 字头 see styles |
zì tóu zi4 tou2 tzu t`ou tzu tou |
first letter of a word or serial number; first character of a Chinese word; first digit of a number; the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character; the initial of a Chinese syllable |
孟春 see styles |
moushun / moshun もうしゅん |
(1) beginning of spring; (2) (obsolete) first month of the lunar calendar; (personal name) Moushun |
孫文 孙文 see styles |
sūn wén sun1 wen2 sun wen magofumi まごふみ |
the original name of 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1], Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党[Guo2 min2 dang3] (given name) Magofumi |
宋慈 see styles |
sòng cí song4 ci2 sung tz`u sung tzu |
Song Ci (1186-1249), author of "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" 洗冤集錄|洗冤集录[Xi3 yuan1 ji2 lu4] (1247), said to be the world's first forensic science text |
宗法 see styles |
zōng fǎ zong1 fa3 tsung fa souhou / soho そうほう |
patriarchal clan system (hist) regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order; (place-name) Souhou 宗體 The thesis of a syllogism consisting of two terms, each of which has five different names: 自性 subject; 差別 its differentiation; 有法 that which acts; 法 the action; 所別 that which is differentiated; 能別 that which differentiates; 前陳 first statement; 後陳 following statement; 宗依 that on which the syllogism depends, both for subject and predicate. |
定性 see styles |
dìng xìng ding4 xing4 ting hsing teisei / tese ていせい |
to determine the nature (of something); to determine the chemical composition (of a substance); qualitative (can be adjective with の) qualitative Fixed nature; settled mind. A classification of 'five kinds of nature' 五種性 is made by the 法相宗, the first two being the 定性二乘, i. e. śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas, whose mind is fixed on arhatship, and not on Buddhahood. The 定性喜樂地 is the second dhyāna heaven of form, in which the occupants abide in surpassing meditation or trance, which produces mental joy. |
定散 see styles |
dìng sàn ding4 san4 ting san jōsan |
A settled, or a wandering mind; the mind organized by meditation, or disorganized by distraction. The first is characteristic of the saint and sage, the second of the common untutored man. The fixed heart may or may not belong to the realm of transmigration; the distracted heart has the distinctions of good, bad, or indifferent. |
密經 密经 see styles |
mì jīng mi4 jing1 mi ching mikkyō |
The foundation texts of the esoteric school, i.e. the 大日經 and 金剛頂經 and various sutras, especially but not exclusively those with mantras; another group is the first two and the 蘇悉地經. |
寡人 see styles |
guǎ rén gua3 ren2 kua jen kajin かじん |
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility) (expression) my humble self |
審級 审级 see styles |
shěn jí shen3 ji2 shen chi shinkyuu / shinkyu しんきゅう |
appeal (to higher courts) instance (e.g. first instance, second instance, etc. in a legal proceeding) |
封切 see styles |
fuukiri / fukiri ふうきり |
(noun/participle) premiere; first showing; release (film) |
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 |
小１ see styles |
shouichi / shoichi しょういち |
first-year student of an elementary school |
小一 see styles |
shouichi / shoichi しょういち |
first-year student of an elementary school; (personal name) Shouichi |
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. |
小春 see styles |
xiǎo chūn xiao3 chun1 hsiao ch`un hsiao chun koharu こはる |
10th month of the lunar calendar; Indian summer; crops sown in late autumn (See 小春日和) 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall; (female given name) Chiharu |
小潮 see styles |
xiǎo cháo xiao3 chao2 hsiao ch`ao hsiao chao koshio こしお |
neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter) (noun - becomes adjective with の) (See 大潮) neap tide; (place-name) Koshio |
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 |
尸羅 尸罗 see styles |
shī luó shi1 luo2 shih lo shira |
sila (Buddhism) Sila, 尸; 尸怛羅 intp. by 淸凉 pure and cool, i.e. chaste; also by 戒 restraint, or keeping the commandments; also by 性善 of good disposition. It is the second pāramitā, moral purity, i. e. of thought, word, and deed. The four conditions of śīla are chaste, calm, quiet, extinguished, i. e. no longer perturbed by the passions. Also, perhaps śīla, a stone, i. e. a precious stone, pearl, or coral. For the ten śīlas or commandments v. 十戒, the first five, or pañca-śīla 五戒, are for all Buddhists. |
尻餅 see styles |
shirimochi しりもち |
(1) falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall; (2) mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside |
尻餠 see styles |
shirimochi しりもち |
(1) falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall; (2) mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside |
居首 see styles |
jū shǒu ju1 shou3 chü shou |
leading; in first place; top of the list |
帶頭 带头 see styles |
dài tóu dai4 tou2 tai t`ou tai tou |
to take the lead; to be the first; to set an example |
平句 see styles |
hiraku ひらく |
ordinary verse of a renga (i.e. not the first three verses or the last verse) |
平声 see styles |
hyoushou / hyosho ひょうしょう |
(1) first tone in old Chinese phonetics; level tone; (2) (of a Japanese accent) having a low, flat tone |
平聲 平声 see styles |
píng shēng ping2 sheng1 p`ing sheng ping sheng |
level or even tone; first and second tones in modern Mandarin See: 平声 |
年強 see styles |
toshizuyo としづよ |
(noun or adjectival noun) being older or a senior; the first half of the year |
序王 see styles |
xù wáng xu4 wang2 hsü wang Joō |
The introduction by Chih-i to the Lotus Sutra. Introductions are divided into 序, 正, and 流通, the first relating to the reason for the book; the second to its method; and the third to its subsequent history. |
底層 底层 see styles |
dǐ céng di3 ceng2 ti ts`eng ti tseng |
ground floor; first floor; lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc) |
廅天 see styles |
hé tiān he2 tian1 ho t`ien ho tien ōten |
Parīttābha, the fourth brahmaloka, the first region of the second dhyāna. |
張三 张三 see styles |
zhāng sān zhang1 san1 chang san chouzou / chozo ちょうぞう |
Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三|张三[Zhang1 San1], 李四[Li3 Si4], 王五[Wang2 Wu3] Tom, Dick and Harry; (dialect) wolf (given name) Chōzou |
彌月 弥月 see styles |
mí yuè mi2 yue4 mi yüeh mitsuki みつき |
full moon; first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month) (female given name) Mitsuki |
当初 see styles |
tousho / tosho とうしょ |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) beginning; start; outset; (n,adv) (2) at first; at the beginning; initially; originally |
往信 see styles |
oushin / oshin おうしん |
first half of a reply card |
律法 see styles |
lǜ fǎ lu:4 fa3 lü fa rippou / rippo りっぽう |
laws and decrees (1) law; rule; (2) {Buddh} (See 戒律) precept; (3) (See トーラー) Torah (first five books of the Hebrew Bible) The laws or methods of the discipline; rules and laws. |
後攻 see styles |
koukou / koko こうこう |
(n,vs,vi) {baseb} (See 先攻) taking the field first; batting second |
御初 see styles |
ohatsu おはつ |
(1) (polite language) doing something for the first time (ever, in a season, etc.); (2) new item; first crop of the season |
御薪 see styles |
mikamagi みかまぎ |
(1) (archaism) kindling burned in shrines and temples; (2) (archaism) special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year); (3) (archaism) kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryō period |
忍髷 see styles |
shinobuwage しのぶわげ |
(archaism) women's hairstyle (first appearing during the mid-18th century) |
応急 see styles |
oukyuu / okyu おうきゅう |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) emergency; first-aid |
急救 see styles |
jí jiù ji2 jiu4 chi chiu |
to give emergency treatment; first aid |
懺悔 忏悔 see styles |
chàn huǐ chan4 hui3 ch`an hui chan hui sange; zange さんげ; ざんげ |
to repent; (religion) to confess (noun, transitive verb) (さんげ is usu. used in Buddhism and ざんげ in other religions) repentance; confession; penitence chan is the translit. of kṣamā, 悔 its translation, i.e. repentance; but also the first is intp. as confession, cf. 提 deśanā, the second as repentance and reform. |
成劫 see styles |
chéng jié cheng2 jie2 ch`eng chieh cheng chieh joukou; jougou / joko; jogo じょうこう; じょうごう |
{Buddh} (See 四劫) the kalpa of formation (the first aeon of the universe) vivarta kalpa, one of the four kalpas, consisting of twenty small kalpas during which worlds and the beings on them are formed. The others are: 住劫 vivarta-siddha kalpa, kalpa of abiding, or existence, sun and moon rise, sexes are differentiated, heroes arise, four castes are formed, social life evolves. 壞劫saṃvarta kalpa, that of destruction, consisting of sixty-four small kalpas when fire, water, and wind destroy everything except the fourth dhyāna. 空劫 saṃvarta-siddha kalpa, i.e. of annihilation. v. 劫波. |
戒忍 see styles |
jier ěn jier4 en3 jier en kainin |
Patience acquired by the observance of the discipline; the first of the ten kṣānti. |
打底 see styles |
dǎ dǐ da3 di3 ta ti |
to lay a foundation (also fig.); to make a first sketch; to eat something before drinking; to apply an undercoat |
抑々 see styles |
somosomo そもそも |
(adverbial noun) (1) (kana only) in the first place; to begin with; from the start; originally; ab initio; (conjunction) (2) (kana only) ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?"); (noun - becomes adjective with の) (3) (kana only) beginning; start |
抑抑 see styles |
somosomo そもそも |
(adverbial noun) (1) (kana only) in the first place; to begin with; from the start; originally; ab initio; (conjunction) (2) (kana only) ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?"); (noun - becomes adjective with の) (3) (kana only) beginning; start |
抓周 see styles |
zhuā zhōu zhua1 zhou1 chua chou |
custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child's inclinations, future career etc.) |
披剃 see styles |
pī tì pi1 ti4 p`i t`i pi ti hitei |
The first donning of the robe and shaving of the head (by a novice). |
挑頭 挑头 see styles |
tiǎo tóu tiao3 tou2 t`iao t`ou tiao tou |
to take the lead; to be first to (do something); to pioneer |
振り see styles |
buri ぶり |
(suffix) (1) (kana only) style; manner; way; (suffix) (2) (kana only) (See 久しぶり・ひさしぶり) after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time) |
掄元 抡元 see styles |
lún yuán lun2 yuan2 lun yüan |
to win the top award; to come first in the examination rankings |
揚煮 see styles |
ageni あげに |
(1) (food term) fry-simmering; cooking by first briefly deep-frying, then simmering in broth; (2) (food term) fry-simmered food; fried food in broth |
揚雄 扬雄 see styles |
yáng xióng yang2 xiong2 yang hsiung youyuu / yoyu ようゆう |
Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言[Fang1 yan2] (personal name) Yōyū |
揣食 see styles |
chuāi shí chuai1 shi2 ch`uai shih chuai shih tanjiki |
The Indian way of eating by first rolling the food into a ball in the hand; also 團食. |
搶先 抢先 see styles |
qiǎng xiān qiang3 xian1 ch`iang hsien chiang hsien |
to rush (to do something urgent); to try to be the first; to forestall |
搶答 抢答 see styles |
qiǎng dá qiang3 da2 ch`iang ta chiang ta |
to compete to be the first to answer a question (as on a quiz show) |
摩騰 摩腾 see styles |
mó téng mo2 teng2 mo t`eng mo teng matou / mato まとう |
(surname) Matou Kāśyapa Mātaṇga who, according to tradition, accompanied the first envoys back to China. A. D. 64; cf. 迦. |
放燈 放灯 see styles |
fàng dēng fang4 deng1 fang teng hōtō |
Lighting strings of lanterns, on the fifteenth of the first month, a custom wrongly attributed to Han Ming Ti, to celebrate the victory of Buddhism in the debate with Taoists; later extended to the seventh and fifteenth full moons. |
故苦 see styles |
gù kǔ gu4 ku3 ku k`u ku ku koku |
Old suffering; also the suffering resulting from prolongation, e. g. too much lying, standing, walking, at first a joy, becomes wearying. |
救急 see styles |
jiù jí jiu4 ji2 chiu chi kyuukyuu / kyukyu きゅうきゅう |
to provide emergency assistance (noun - becomes adjective with の) first-aid; emergency (aid) |
救護 救护 see styles |
jiù hù jiu4 hu4 chiu hu kyuugo / kyugo きゅうご |
to rescue; to administer first aid (noun, transitive verb) relief; aid; (surname) Kiyūgo To save and protect. |
敦煌 see styles |
dūn huáng dun1 huang2 tun huang tonkou / tonko とんこう |
Dunhuang, county-level city in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu (irregular kanji usage) (noun or adjectival noun) sincerity and kindheartedness; honesty and simplicity; (place-name) Dunhuang (China) (or 燉煌) The city in Kansu near which are the 千佛洞 Cave-temples of the thousand Buddhas; where a monk in A. D. 1900, sweeping away the collected sand, broke through a partition and found a room full of MSS. ranging in date from the beginning of the 5th to the end of the 10th century, together with block prints and paintings, first brought to light by Sir Aurel Stein. |
新仏 see styles |
shinbotoke; arabotoke; niibotoke / shinbotoke; arabotoke; nibotoke しんぼとけ; あらぼとけ; にいぼとけ |
(1) (See 御盆・1) spirit of someone on the first Obon after their death; (2) the recently departed (and buried or cremated, etc.); (surname) Shinbutsu |
新出 see styles |
shinshutsu しんしゅつ |
(n,vs,vi) appearing for the first time (esp. vocabulary, kanji, etc. in a school textbook); (surname) Niide |
新涼 see styles |
shinryou / shinryo しんりょう |
coolness of autumn; first cold air of autumn |
新甫 see styles |
shinpo しんぽ |
new futures on the first trading session of the month; (surname) Niibo |
新盆 see styles |
niibon; arabon; shinbon / nibon; arabon; shinbon にいぼん; あらぼん; しんぼん |
first Obon following someone's death |
新米 see styles |
shinmai しんまい |
(1) (See 古米) new rice; first rice crop of the year; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) novice; beginner; newcomer; new hand; (place-name) Shinmai |
新茶 see styles |
shincha しんちゃ |
first tea of the season; (surname) Shincha |
新軍 新军 see styles |
xīn jun xin1 jun1 hsin chün |
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) |
日種 日种 see styles |
rì zhǒng ri4 zhong3 jih chung nitsushiyu につしゆ |
(surname) Nitsushiyu Sūrya-vaṃśa, one of the five surnames of Śākyamuni, sun-seed or lineage, his first ancestors having been produced by the sun from. 'two stalks of sugar-cane'; v. Ikṣvāku. |
旦望 see styles |
dàn wàng dan4 wang4 tan wang tanmō |
The new moon and full moon, or first, and fifteenth of the moon. |
早矢 see styles |
haya はや |
arrow with feathers that curve to the left (the first of two arrows to be fired); (female given name) Haya |
早贄 see styles |
hayanie はやにえ |
(1) (abbreviation) butcher-bird prey impaled on twigs, thorns, etc. for later consumption; (2) first offering of the season |
旬歲 旬岁 see styles |
xún suì xun2 sui4 hsün sui |
full year; first birthday |
明初 see styles |
míng chū ming2 chu1 ming ch`u ming chu meisho / mesho めいしょ |
the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century) (abbreviation) (obsolete) (abbr. of 明治初年) first year of Meiji era |
明末 see styles |
míng mò ming2 mo4 ming mo akesue あけすえ |
late Ming; first half of the 17th century (surname) Akesue |
春聯 春联 see styles |
chūn lián chun1 lian2 ch`un lien chun lien |
Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) |
晦朔 see styles |
kaisaku かいさく |
(archaism) last and first days of the month |
晨曦 see styles |
chén xī chen2 xi1 ch`en hsi chen hsi |
first rays of morning sun; first glimmer of dawn |
晨朝 see styles |
chén zhāo chen2 zhao1 ch`en chao chen chao jinjou; shinchou; jinchou / jinjo; shincho; jincho じんじょう; しんちょう; じんちょう |
{Buddh} (See 六時) around six o'clock AM; dawn service The morning period, the first of the three divisions of the day. |
智顗 智𫖮 see styles |
zhì yǐ zhi4 yi3 chih i Chigi |
Zhiyi (538-597), founder of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism Zhiyi, founder of the Tiantai school, also known as 智者 and 天台 (天台大師); his surname was 陳 Chen; his 字 was 德安, De-an; born about A. D. 538, he died in 597 at 60 years of age. He was a native of 頴川 Ying-chuan in Anhui, became a neophyte at 7, was fully ordained at 20. At first a follower of 慧思, Huisi, in 575 he went to the Tiantai mountain in Chekiang, where he founded his famous school on the Lotus Sūtra as containing the complete gospel of the Buddha. |
曩に see styles |
sakini さきに |
(adv,n) before; earlier than; first; ahead; beyond; away; previously; recently |
更藥 更药 see styles |
gēng yào geng1 yao4 keng yao kōyaku |
Medicines that should be taken between dawn and the first watch, of which eight are named, v. 百一羯磨 5. |
書初 see styles |
kakizome かきぞめ |
first calligraphy of the year |
曹丕 see styles |
cáo pī cao2 pi1 ts`ao p`i tsao pi souhi / sohi そうひ |
Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher (person) Cao Pi (187-226 CE; first emperor of Cao Wei); Emperor Wen of Wei |
曹操 see styles |
cáo cāo cao2 cao1 ts`ao ts`ao tsao tsao sousou / soso そうそう |
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 (person) Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms |
曾て see styles |
katsute かつて katte かって |
(adv,adj-no) (1) (kana only) once; before; formerly; ever; former; ex-; (2) (kana only) never yet; never before; first time; still not happened |
最先 see styles |
zuì xiān zui4 xian1 tsui hsien |
(the) very first |
最第 see styles |
zuì dì zui4 di4 tsui ti saidai |
principal or first |
月支 see styles |
yuè zhī yue4 zhi1 yüeh chih Gasshi げっし |
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]) Yuezhi; Rouzhi; an ancient Central Asian people (月支國) The Yuezhi, or 'Indo-Scythians', 月氏 (國) and a country they at one time occupied, i. e. 都貨羅 Tukhara, Tokharestan, or Badakshan. Driven out from the northern curve of the Yellow River by the Huns, circa 165 B. C., they conquered Bactria 大夏, the Punjab, Kashmir, 'and the greater part of India. ' Their expulsion from the north of Shansi was the cause of the famous journey of Zhangqian of the Han dynasty and the beginning of Chinese expansion to the north-west. Kanishka, king of the Yuezhi towards the end of the first century A. D., became the great protector and propagator of Buddhism. |
月旦 see styles |
gettan げったん |
(n,adv) (1) first day of the month; (2) (abbreviation) (See 月旦評) character sketch; comments on personalities; commentary |
月朔 see styles |
yuè shuò yue4 shuo4 yüeh shuo |
the first day of each month |
月立 see styles |
tsukitate つきたて |
(1) (archaism) first day of the month; (2) first ten days of the lunar month; (place-name) Tsukitate |
有學 有学 see styles |
yǒu xué you3 xue2 yu hsüeh ugaku |
śaikṣa; in Hīnayāna those in the first three stages of training as arhats, the fourth and last stage being 無學 those beyond the need of further teaching or study. There are eighteen grades of śaikṣa. |
朔月 see styles |
shuò yuè shuo4 yue4 shuo yüeh |
new moon; first day of the lunar month |
望粥 see styles |
mochigayu もちがゆ |
(1) (food term) rice gruel with mochi; (2) (food term) azuki bean gruel eaten around the 15th day of the first month |
朝一 see styles |
tomokazu ともかず |
(temporal noun) (colloquialism) first thing in the morning; (given name) Tomokazu |
末世 see styles |
mò shì mo4 shi4 mo shih masse; massei / masse; masse まっせ; まっせい |
last phase (of an age) (1) degenerate age; corrupt world; (2) {Buddh} (See 末法) age of the decline of Buddhism; latter days of the law The third and last period of a Buddha-kalpa; the first is the first 500 years of correct doctrine, the second is the 1, 000 years of semblance law, or approximation to the doctrine, and the third a myriad years of its decline and end. Also 末代. |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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