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There are 6 total results for your Live in the Present search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

今を生きる

see styles
 imaoikiru
    いまをいきる

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Live For The Day / Seize The Day
(exp,v1) to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day

行る

see styles
 yaru
    やる
(transitive verb) (1) (kana only) (colloquialism) to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study; (2) (kana only) to send; to dispatch; to despatch; (3) (kana only) to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.); (4) (kana only) to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer; (5) (kana only) to make (a vehicle) go faster; (6) (kana only) to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise; (7) (kana only) to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke; (8) (kana only) to hold (a performance); to perform; to show; (9) (kana only) to ease (one's mind); (10) (colloquialism) (kana only) to harm; to injure; to kill; (11) (kana only) (slang) to have sex with; (v5r,vi) (12) (kana only) to live; to get by; to get along; (suf,v5r) (13) (kana only) to do ... completely; (14) (kana only) to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance; (aux-v,v5r) (15) (kana only) to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance); (16) (kana only) to make active efforts to ...

遣る

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 yaru
    やる
(transitive verb) (1) (kana only) (colloquialism) to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study; (2) (kana only) to send; to dispatch; to despatch; (3) (kana only) to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.); (4) (kana only) to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer; (5) (kana only) to make (a vehicle) go faster; (6) (kana only) to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise; (7) (kana only) to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke; (8) (kana only) to hold (a performance); to perform; to show; (9) (kana only) to ease (one's mind); (10) (colloquialism) (kana only) to harm; to injure; to kill; (11) (kana only) (slang) to have sex with; (v5r,vi) (12) (kana only) to live; to get by; to get along; (suf,v5r) (13) (kana only) to do ... completely; (14) (kana only) to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance; (aux-v,v5r) (15) (kana only) to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance); (16) (kana only) to make active efforts to ...

饔餼


饔饩

see styles
yōng xì
    yong1 xi4
yung hsi
to present slaughtered or live animals

及時行樂


及时行乐

see styles
jí shí xíng lè
    ji2 shi2 xing2 le4
chi shih hsing le
to enjoy the present (idiom); to live happily with no thought for the future; make merry while you can; carpe diem

Variations:
遣る(P)
行る

see styles
 yaru(p); yaru(sk)
    やる(P); ヤる(sk)
(transitive verb) (1) (kana only) (colloquialism) (See する・1) to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study; (transitive verb) (2) (kana only) to send; to dispatch; to despatch; (transitive verb) (3) (kana only) to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.); (transitive verb) (4) (kana only) to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer; (transitive verb) (5) (kana only) to make (a vehicle) go faster; (transitive verb) (6) (kana only) to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise; (transitive verb) (7) (kana only) to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke; (transitive verb) (8) (kana only) (See 演る) to hold (a performance); to perform; to show; (transitive verb) (9) (kana only) to ease (one's mind); (transitive verb) (10) (colloquialism) (kana only) (See 殺る) to harm; to injure; to kill; (transitive verb) (11) (kana only) (slang) (vulgar) (oft. written as ヤる) to have sex; to fuck; to bang; (v5r,vi) (12) (kana only) (See やって行く,やって来る・1) to live; to get by; to get along; (suf,v5r) (13) (kana only) (after the -masu stem of a verb, often in the negative) to do ... completely; (suf,v5r) (14) (kana only) (after the -masu stem of a verb) to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance; (aux-v,v5r) (15) (kana only) (after the -te form of a verb; sometimes with negative nuance) to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to; (aux-v,v5r) (16) (kana only) (after the -te form of a verb) to make active efforts to ...

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

This page contains 6 results for "Live in the Present" 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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