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There are 14 total results for your Life is Simple search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

淡泊

see styles
dàn bó
    dan4 bo2
tan po
 tanbaku
    たんぱく
living a simple life
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; (2) frank; candid; ingenuous; indifferent
tranquil

小日子

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xiǎo rì zi
    xiao3 ri4 zi5
hsiao jih tzu
simple life

小確幸


小确幸

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xiǎo què xìng
    xiao3 que4 xing4
hsiao ch`üeh hsing
    hsiao chüeh hsing
 shoukakkou / shokakko
    しょうかっこう
something small that one can find pleasure in (e.g. a cold beer after a hard day or a serendipitous find in a second-hand store)
(slang) (abbr. of 小さいけど確かな幸せ; from an essay by Haruki Murakami) simple pleasure (in life)

不忮不求

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bù zhì bù qiú
    bu4 zhi4 bu4 qiu2
pu chih pu ch`iu
    pu chih pu chiu
(idiom) to be free of jealousy or greed; to live a simple life, free from worldly desires

役者馬鹿

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 yakushabaka
    やくしゃばか
good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense

淡泊明志

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dàn bó míng zhì
    dan4 bo2 ming2 zhi4
tan po ming chih
living a simple life as one's ideal (idiom)

箪食瓢飲

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 tanshihyouin / tanshihyoin
    たんしひょういん
(rare) (yoji) (from the Analects of Confucius) simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink

粗衣粗食

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 soisoshoku
    そいそしょく
(yoji) simple life; frugal life

シンプルライフ

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 shinpururaifu
    シンプルライフ
simple life

老婆孩子熱炕頭


老婆孩子热炕头

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lǎo pó hái zi rè kàng tou
    lao3 po2 hai2 zi5 re4 kang4 tou5
lao p`o hai tzu je k`ang t`ou
    lao po hai tzu je kang tou
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom); the simple and good life

シンプル・ライフ

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 shinpuru raifu
    シンプル・ライフ
simple life

一箪の食一瓢の飲

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 ittannoshiippyounoin / ittannoshippyonoin
    いったんのしいっぴょうのいん
(exp,n) (idiom) (from the Analects of Confucius) simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink

Variations:
シンプルライフ
シンプル・ライフ

see styles
 shinpururaifu; shinpuru raifu
    シンプルライフ; シンプル・ライフ
simple life

Variations:
侘び
侘(io)
佗(io)
佗び

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 wabi
    わび
(1) taste for the simple and quiet; rustic simplicity; austere refinement; wabi; (2) enjoyment of a quiet life

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

This page contains 14 results for "Life is Simple" 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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