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There are 9 total results for your Longa search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

學海無涯


学海无涯

see styles
xué hǎi wú yá
    xue2 hai3 wu2 ya2
hsüeh hai wu ya

More info & calligraphy:

The Sea of Knowledge Has No Limits
sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn; ars longa, vita brevis

文江學海


文江学海

see styles
wén jiāng xué hǎi
    wen2 jiang1 xue2 hai3
wen chiang hsüeh hai

More info & calligraphy:

River of Literacy, Sea of Learning
river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis

ロンガ川

see styles
 rongagawa
    ロンガがわ
(place-name) Longa (river)

道山學海


道山学海

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dào shān xué hǎi
    dao4 shan1 xue2 hai3
tao shan hsüeh hai
mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas; ars longa, vita brevis

アルバロンガ

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 arubaronga
    アルバロンガ
(place-name) Alba Longa (Italy)

デロング諸島

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 derongushotou / derongushoto
    デロングしょとう
(place-name) Ostrova De-Longa (islands)

人生短暫,學術無涯


人生短暂,学术无涯

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rén shēng duǎn zàn , xué shù wú yá
    ren2 sheng1 duan3 zan4 , xue2 shu4 wu2 ya2
jen sheng tuan tsan , hsüeh shu wu ya
Life is short, learning is limitless; Ars longa, vita brevis

芸術は長く人生は短し

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 geijutsuhanagakujinseihamijikashi / gejutsuhanagakujinsehamijikashi
    げいじゅつはながくじんせいはみじかし
(expression) (proverb) art is long, life is short; ars longa, vita brevis

吾生也有涯,而知也無涯


吾生也有涯,而知也无涯

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wú shēng yě yǒu yá , ér zhī yě wú yá
    wu2 sheng1 ye3 you3 ya2 , er2 zhi1 ye3 wu2 ya2
wu sheng yeh yu ya , erh chih yeh wu ya
Life is short, learning is limitless; Ars longa, vita brevis

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

This page contains 9 results for "Longa" 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).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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