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There are 15 total results for your Live Without search in the dictionary.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

九鬼

see styles
jiǔ guǐ
    jiu3 gui3
chiu kuei
 kuki
    くき
(place-name, surname) Kuki
The nine classes of ghosts are of three kinds: without means, small means, rich. The first group have 炬口 burning torch-like mouths, or 鍼口 narrow needle mouths, or 臭口 stinking mouths; the second group have hair like needles, or stinking hair, or tumours; the rich ghosts haunt sacrifices to the dead, or eat human leavings, or live truculently.

偷生

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tōu shēng
    tou1 sheng1
t`ou sheng
    tou sheng
to live without purpose

安居

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ān jū
    an1 ju1
an chü
 yasuoki
    やすおき
to settle down; to live peacefully
(n,vs,vi) {Buddh} varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar); (given name) Yasuoki
Tranquil dwelling. varṣā, varṣās, or varṣāvasāna. A retreat during the three months of the Indian rainy season, and also, say some, in the depth of winter. During the rains it was 'difficult to move without injuring insect life'. But the object was for study and meditation. In Tokhara the retreat is said to have been in winter, from the middle of the 12th to the middle of the 3rd moon; in India from the middle of the 5th to the 8th, or the 6th to the 9th moons; usually from Śrāvaṇa, Chinese 5th moon, to Aśvayuja, Chinese 8th moon; but the 16th of the 4th to the 15th of the 7th moon has been the common period in China and Japan. The two annual periods are sometimes called 坐 夏 and 坐 臘 sitting or resting for the summer and for the end of the year. The period is divided into three sections, former, middle, and latter, each of a month.

胎生

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tāi shēng
    tai1 sheng1
t`ai sheng
    tai sheng
 taisei / taise
    たいせい
viviparity; zoogony
(1) viviparity; (can be adjective with の) (2) viviparous; zoogonous; live-bearing
Uterine birth, womb-born. Before the differentiation of the sexes birth is supposed to have been by transformation. The term is also applied to beings enclosed in unopened lotuses in paradise, who have not had faith in Amitābha but trusted to their own strength to attain salvation; there they remain for proportionate periods, happy, but without the presence of the Buddha, or Bodhisattvas, or the sacred host, and do not hear their teaching. The condition is known as 胎宮, the womb-palace.

苟活

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gǒu huó
    gou3 huo2
kou huo
to live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself

涅迦羅


涅迦罗

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niè jiā luó
    nie4 jia1 luo2
nieh chia lo
 nekara
niṣkala, without parts; seedless; indivisible; or perhaps niṣkāla, but a short time to live, intp. as 暫時 a shot time, temporary.

二種涅槃


二种涅槃

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èr zhǒng niè pán
    er4 zhong3 nie4 pan2
erh chung nieh p`an
    erh chung nieh pan
 nishu nehan
Two nirvanas: (1) 有餘涅槃 also 有餘依 That with a remnant; the cause 因 has been annihilated, but the remnant of the effect 果 still remains, so that a saint may enter this nirvana during life, but have to continue to live in this mortal realm till the death of his body. (2) 無餘涅槃 or 無餘依 Remnantless nirvāṇa, without cause and effect, the connection with the chain of mortal life being ended, so that the saint enters upon perfect nirvāṇa on the death of the body; cf. 智度論 31. Another definition is that Hīnayāna has further transmigration, while Mahāyāna maintains final nirvana. "Nothing remnaining" is differently interpreted in different schools, by some literally, but in Mahāyāna generally, as meaning no further mortal suffering, i.e. final nirvāṇa.

窮困潦倒


穷困潦倒

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qióng kùn liáo dǎo
    qiong2 kun4 liao2 dao3
ch`iung k`un liao tao
    chiung kun liao tao
(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope

苟且偷生

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gǒu qiě tōu shēng
    gou3 qie3 tou1 sheng1
kou ch`ieh t`ou sheng
    kou chieh tou sheng
to drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence

家庭内離婚

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 kateinairikon / katenairikon
    かていないりこん
in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

波羅夷四喩


波罗夷四喩

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bō luó yí sì yú
    bo1 luo2 yi2 si4 yu2
po lo i ssu yü
 harai shiyu
The four metaphors addressed by the Buddha to monks are: he who breaks the vow of chastity is as a needle without an eye, a dead man, a broken stone which cannot be united, a tree cut in two which cannot live.

身在福中不知福

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shēn zài fú zhōng bù zhī fú
    shen1 zai4 fu2 zhong1 bu4 zhi1 fu2
shen tsai fu chung pu chih fu
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off

夜も日も明けない

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 yomohimoakenai
    よもひもあけない
(expression) cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one

Variations:
過ごす
過す

 sugosu
    すごす
(transitive verb) (1) to spend (time); to pass; to lead (a life); to live; (transitive verb) (2) to overdo (esp. alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); to carry too far; to carry to excess; (transitive verb) (3) (dated) to take care of; to support; (suf,v5s) (4) (after the -masu stem of a verb) (See 寝過ごす) to overdo; to do too much; (suf,v5s) (5) (after the -masu stem of a verb) (See 見過ごす) to ... without acting on it; to ... without getting involved

Variations:
霞を食う
かすみを食う

 kasumiokuu / kasumioku
    かすみをくう
(exp,v5u) (idiom) to live on air; to live on nothing; to live without a means of income

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

This page contains 15 results for "Live Without" 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).



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