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rèn
    ren4
jen
 makoto
    まこと
to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
obligation; duty; charge; responsibility; (given name) Makoto
Bear, endure, let; office; it is used to connote laisser-faire; one of the 四病, as 任運 implies laisser-aller; it is intp. by let things follow their own course, or by 自然 naturally, without intervention.

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kòng
    kong4
k`ung
    kung
 ron
    ろん
to empty; vacant; unoccupied; space; leisure; free time
(1) empty air; sky; (2) {Buddh} shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; (3) (abbreviation) (See 空軍) air force; (noun or adjectival noun) (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness; (noun or adjectival noun) (5) (See 五大・1) void (one of the five elements); (can be adjective with の) (6) {math} empty (e.g. set); (female given name) Ron
śūnya, empty, void, hollow, vacant, nonexistent. śūnyatā, 舜若多, vacuity, voidness, emptiness, non-existence, immateriality, perhaps spirituality, unreality, the false or illusory nature of all existence, the seeming 假 being unreal. The doctrine that all phenomena and the ego have no reality, but are composed of a certain number of skandhas or elements, which disintegrate. The void, the sky, space. The universal, the absolute, complete abstraction without relativity. There are classifications into 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, and 18 categories. The doctrine is that all things are compounds, or unstable organisms, possessing no self-essence, i.e. are dependent, or caused, come into existence only to perish. The underlying reality, the principle of eternal relativity, or non-infinity, i.e. śūnya, permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution. From this doctrine the Yogācārya school developed the idea of the permanent reality, which is Essence of Mind, the unknowable noumenon behind all phenomena, the entity void of ideas and phenomena, neither matter nor mind, but the root of both.

精神

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jīng shen
    jing1 shen5
ching shen
 seishin / seshin
    せいしん

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Spirit
vigor; vitality; spirited; good-looking
(1) mind; spirit; soul; heart; ethos; (2) attitude; mentality; will; intention; (3) spirit (of a matter); essence; fundamental significance; (given name) Seishin
Vitality; also the pure and spiritual, the subtle, or recondite.

マター

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 mataa / mata
    マター
(1) matter; affair; issue; situation; (2) matter; material; substance

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zài
    zai4
tsai
 kon
    こん
    koto
    こと
matter; affair
(out-dated kanji) (1) (kana only) thing; matter; (2) (kana only) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) (kana only) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) (kana only) work; business; affair; (5) (kana only) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (suffix noun) (6) (kana only) nominalizing suffix; (7) (kana only) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (n,n-suf) (8) (kana only) alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

事項


事项

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shì xiàng
    shi4 xiang4
shih hsiang
 jikou / jiko
    じこう
matter; item
matter; item; facts

小事

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xiǎo shì
    xiao3 shi4
hsiao shih
 shouji / shoji
    しょうじ
trifle; trivial matter; CL:點|点[dian3]
trifling matter; trifle

急事

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jí shì
    ji2 shi4
chi shih
 kyuuji / kyuji
    きゅうじ
urgent matter
(rare) pressing matter; sudden event

恨事

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hèn shì
    hen4 shi4
hen shih
 konji
    こんじ
a matter for regret or resentment
regrettable matter

物質


物质

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wù zhì
    wu4 zhi4
wu chih
 busshitsu
    ぶっしつ
matter; substance; material; materialistic; CL:個|个[ge4]
(1) material; substance; (2) {physics} matter

私事

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sī shì
    si1 shi4
ssu shih
 watakushigoto
    わたくしごと
    shiji
    しじ
personal matters
(1) personal affairs; matter relating to oneself; (2) secret; privacy

要事

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yào shì
    yao4 shi4
yao shih
 youji / yoji
    ようじ
important matter
important matter; necessary thing; requirement

諸事


诸事

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zhū shì
    zhu1 shi4
chu shih
 moroji
    もろじ
everything; every matter
various matters; everything; (surname) Moroji
various affairs

質料


质料

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zhì liào
    zhi4 liao4
chih liao
 shitsuryou / shitsuryo
    しつりょう
material; matter
{phil} (See 形相・2) matter (in Aristotelianism)

有機物


有机物

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yǒu jī wù
    you3 ji1 wu4
yu chi wu
 yuukibutsu / yukibutsu
    ゆうきぶつ
organic substance; organic matter
(1) (See 無機物・1) organic matter; (2) {chem} (See 有機化合物) organic compound

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shàng
    shang4
shang
 noboru
    のぼる
(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
(suffix) (1) from the standpoint of; from the viewpoint of; with respect to; in terms of; as a matter of; in view of; so far as ... is concerned; (suffix) (2) on; above; on top of; aboard (a ship or vehicle); (noun - becomes adjective with の) (3) the best; top; first class; first grade; (4) (See 下・2,中・6) first volume (of a two or three-volume set); first book; (expression) (5) (written on a gift's wrapping paper) with my compliments; (surname) Noboru
uttarā 嗢呾羅; above upper, superior; on; former. To ascend, offer to a superior.

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shì
    shi4
shih
 tsutomu
    つとむ
matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
{Buddh} (See 理・2) individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle); (male given name) Tsutomu
artha 日迦他 (迦 being an error for 遏); affair, concern, matter; action, practice; phenomena; to serve. It is 'practice' or the thing, affair, matter, in contrast with 理 theory, or the underlying principle.

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jiàn
    jian4
chien
 kudan
    くだん
item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc
(n,ctr) (1) matter; affair; case; item; subject; (counter) (2) counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; (counter) (3) counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.); (female given name) Kudan


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    yi2
i
 tadashi
    ただし
apparatus; rites; appearance; present; ceremony
(1) ceremony; (2) matter; affair; case; (suffix) (3) (used in letters, official notices, etc. after a person's name, personal pronoun, etc.) with regard to; as for; as concerns; (given name) Tadashi
Manner, mode, style; ceremony, etiquette.

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gōng
    gong1
kung
 hiromu
    ひろむ
public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
(1) (See 私) public affair; government matter; the state; the government; the public; (n,n-suf) (2) duke; prince; (suffix) (3) (after the name of a high-ranking person) Sir; Lord; (suffix) (4) (after a person, animal, etc.) familiar or derogatory suffix; (given name) Hiromu
Public, general, official; a duke, grandparent, gentleman; just, fair.

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zài
    zai4
tsai
 sai
    さい
again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after something, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
(prefix) re-; again
Again, a second time, also 再往.


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    wu4
wu
 tsutomu
    つとむ
affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
(male given name) Tsutomu
to strive

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    ye3
yeh
(Cantonese) thing; matter; stuff


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chén
    chen2
ch`en
    chen
 chiri
    ちり
dust; dirt; earth
(1) dust; (2) trash; garbage; rubbish; dirt; (3) (usu. as 塵ほども...ない) negligible amount; tiny bit; (4) hustle and bustle (of life); worldly cares; impurities of the world; (5) (abbreviation) {sumo} (See 塵手水) ritual gestures indicating that a fight will be clean
guṇa, in Sanskrit inter alia means 'a secondary element', 'a quality', 'an attribute of the five elements', e.g. 'ether has śabda or sound for its guṇa and the ear for its organ'. In Chinese it means 'dust, small particles; molecules, atoms, exhalations'. It may be intp. as an atom, or matter, which is considered as defilement; or as an active, conditioned principle in nature, minute, subtle, and generally speaking defiling to pure mind; worldly, earthly, the world. The six guṇas or sensation-data are those of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and thought.

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    ru2
ju
 yuki
    ゆき
as; as if; such as
{Buddh} (See 真如) tathata (the ultimate nature of all things); (female given name) Yuki
tathā 多陀; 但他 (or 怛他), so, thus, in such manner, like, as. It is used in the sense of the absolute, the 空 śūnya, which is 諸佛之實相 the reality of all Buddhas; hence 如 ru is 賃相 the undifferentiated whole of things, the ultimate reality; it is 諸法之性 the nature of all things, hence it connotes 法性 faxing which is 眞實之際極 the ultimate of reality, or the absolute, and therefore connotes 實際 ultimate reality. The ultimate nature of all things being 如 ru, the one undivided same, it also connotes 理 li, the principle or theory behind all things, and this 理 li universal law, being the 眞實 truth or ultimate reality; 如 ru is termed 眞如 bhūtatathatā, the real so, or suchness, or reality, the ultimate or the all, i. e. the 一如 yiru. In regard to 如 ju as 理 li the Prajñā-pāramitā puṇḍarīka makes it the 中 zhong, neither matter nor nothingness. It is also used in the ordinary sense of so, like, as (cf yathā).


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píng
    ping2
p`ing
    ping
 hyō
to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof
to rely on

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dáo
    dao2
tao
(coll.) to reel in (string, yarn etc) by pulling hand over hand or by coiling; to step along; to look into; to pursue (a matter)


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    ju3
chü
 ko
variant of 舉|举[ju3]
To raise (a thing, matter, subject, etc.); conduct; the whole, all.

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duàn
    duan4
tuan
 dan
    だん
paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
(n,ctr) (1) step; stair; rung; (flight of) steps; (n,ctr) (2) shelf; layer; tier; (3) grade; level; class; (n,ctr) (4) dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.); rank; (5) paragraph; passage; (n,ctr) (6) column (of print); (n,ctr) (7) act (in kabuki, joruri, etc.); section; scene; (8) row of the multiplication table (e.g. five times table); (9) stage (in a process); phase; occasion; time; moment; situation; (10) (form) (as ...の段) matter; occasion; (11) (as ...どころの段ではない, ...という段じゃない, etc.) degree; extent; (counter) (12) counter for breaks in written language or speech; (place-name, surname) Dan
A piece; a section, paragraph. piṇda, a ball, lump, especially of palatable food, sustenance.

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 tomoru
    ともる
(1) dot; spot; point; speck; mark; (2) mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; score; points; (3) point (in a game); score; goal; run; (4) {geom} point; (5) point; aspect; matter; detail; part; respect; way; viewpoint; (6) (punctuation) mark (e.g. comma, period, decimal point); dot; (7) "dot" stroke (in a Chinese character); (counter) (8) counter for points, marks, goals, etc.; (counter) (9) counter for goods, items, articles of clothing, works of art, etc.; (female given name) Tomoru

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    wu4
wu
 mono
    もの
(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
(1) thing; object; article; stuff; substance; (2) (as 〜のもの, 〜のもん) one's things; possessions; property; belongings; (3) things; something; anything; everything; nothing; (4) quality; (5) reason; the way of things; (6) (kana only) (formal noun often used as 〜ものだ) used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen; (suffix noun) (7) (kana only) item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...; (suffix noun) (8) cause of ...; cause for ...; (prefix) (9) (もの only) (See 物寂しい・ものさびしい) somehow; somewhat; for some reason; (prefix) (10) (もの only) (See 物珍しい・ものめずらしい) really; truly; (surname) Mono
Thing, things in general, beings, living beings, matters; "substance," cf. 陀羅驃 dravya.


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zhòng
    zhong4
chung
 tanezaki
    たねざき
to plant; to grow; to cultivate
(1) seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kernel; stone (e.g. of a peach); (2) progeny; offspring; issue; breed; (3) (See 胤) paternal blood; lineage; (4) sperm; semen; seed; (5) cause; source; seed; origin; (6) material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject (of discussion); theme; (news) copy; source (of a story); (7) {food} ingredient; main ingredient (of a piece of sushi); leaven; (8) mechanism (of a magic trick, etc.); secret; trickery; (9) (kana only) {hanaf} (oft. as タネ) 10-point card; tane; animal card; (surname) Tanezaki
vīja; bīja. Seed, germ; sort, species; also to sow, plant.

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    zi4
tzu
 mizu
    みず
(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
(prefix) (1) self-; (prefix) (2) (See 至) from (a time or place); (female given name) Mizu
sva, svayam; the self, one' s own, personal; of itself, naturally, of course; also, from (i. e. from the self as central). 自 is used as the opposite of 他 another, other's, etc., e. g. 自力 (in) one's own strength as contrasted with 他力 the strength of another, especially in the power to save of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. It is also used in the sense of ātman 阿怛摩 the self, or the soul.

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shǎi
    shai3
shai
 shiki
    しき
(coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3 zi5]
(counter) counter for colours; (female given name) Shiki
rūpa, outward appearance, form, colour, matter, thing; the desirable, especially feminine attraction. It is defined as that which has resistance; or which changes and disappears, i. e. the phenomenal; also as 顯, 形 and 表色 colour and quality, form or the measurable, and mode or action. There are divisions of two, i. e. inner and outer, as the organs and objects of sense; also colour and form; of three, i. e. the visible object, e. g. colour, the invisible object, e. g. sound, the invisible and immaterial; of eleven, i. e. the five organs and five objects of sense and the immaterial object; of fourteen, the five organs and five objects of sense and the four elements, earth, water, fire, air. rūpa is one of the six bāhya-āyatana, the 六塵; also one of the five skandhas, 五蘊, i. e. the 色身. Keith refers to rūpa as 'material form or matter which is underived (no-utpādā) and which is derived (utpādā)', the underived or independent being the tangible; the derived or dependent being the senses, e. g. of hearing; most of their objects, e. g. sound; the qualities or faculties of feminity, masculinity, vitality; intimation by act and speech, space; qualities of matter, e. g. buoyancy and physical nutriment.


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chù
    chu4
ch`u
    chu
 tokoro
    ところ
(bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect; (bound form) office; department; bureau; classifier for locations: spot, point
(out-dated kanji) (n,suf) (1) place; spot; scene; site; (2) (kana only) address; (3) (kana only) district; area; locality; (4) (kana only) one's house; (5) (kana only) point; aspect; side; facet; (6) (kana only) passage (in text); part; (7) (kana only) space; room; (8) (kana only) thing; matter; (9) (kana only) whereupon; as a result; (10) (kana only) about to; on the verge of; (11) (kana only) was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing; (surname) Tokoro
To dwell, abide; fix, decide, punish; a place, state. āyatana, 阿耶怛那, also tr. 入, place or entrance of the sense, both the organ and the sensation, or sense datum; hence the 十二處 twelve āyatana, i. e. six organs, and six sense data that enter for discrimination.


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gāi
    gai1
kai
 chikai
    ちかい
should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do something; that; the above-mentioned
(prefix) said; matter in question; (personal name) Chikai
To connect, belong to; proper; ought, owe; the said; the whole.


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zhì
    zhi4
chih
 tadashi
    ただし
character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
(1) (kana only) nature (of a person); disposition; temperament; (2) (kana only) nature (of something); character; kind; sort; (given name) Tadashi
Substance, matter; to substantiate, to confront; substantial honest, sound; translit. ci, ce.


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bàn
    ban4
pan
 ben
to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event); to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise); (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect); (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办[zhao1 ban4], admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室[ban4 gong1 shi4])
To transact, carry out; prepare; punish.

PM

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 pii emu; piiemu(sk) / pi emu; piemu(sk)
    ピー・エム; ピーエム(sk)
(1) {internet} (See プライベートメッセージ) private message; PM; (2) post meridiem; afternoon; (3) (See プロジェクトマネージャー) project manager; (4) (See プロダクトマネージャー) product manager; (5) particulate matter; (6) (See プライムミニスター) prime minister

にも

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 nimo
    ニモ
(expression) (1) also; too; not ... either; as well; even; (expression) (2) (after the volitional or dictionary form of verb) (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise; (female given name) Nimo

一件

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 ikken
    いっけん
(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case

一任

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 ichinin
    いちにん
(noun, transitive verb) entrusting (everything to); leaving (a matter) entirely with

一儀

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 kazuyoshi
    かずよし
(1) one matter; one case; (2) physical intimacy; sexual intercourse; (personal name) Kazuyoshi

一廉

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 kazutoshi
    かずとし
(n-adv,adj-no) (1) (kana only) a cut above the rest; superior; respectable; full-fledged; something uncommon; (2) one field; one matter; (adverb) (3) suitably; reasonably; (male given name) Kazutoshi

一条

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 takuya
    たくや
(1) one line; one streak; one stripe; one ray (of light); one wisp (of smoke); (2) one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one passage (in a book); (3) one matter (affair, event, case, incident); (surname) Takuya

一法

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yī fǎ
    yi1 fa3
i fa
 kazunori
    かずのり
(given name) Kazunori
A dharma, or law; an ordered something, a thing, a matter.

三態

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 santai
    さんたい
the three phases of matter: solid, liquid and gas

三有

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sān yǒu
    san1 you3
san yu
 san'u
The three kinds of bhava, or existence; idem 三界 q. v. The three states of mortal existence in the trailokya, i. e. in the realms of desire, of form, and beyond form. Another definition is 現有 present existence, or the present body and mind; 當有 in a future state; 中有 antara-bhava, in the intermediate state. 三有對 The three sets of limitation on freedom: (a) direct resistance or opposition; (b) environment or condition; (c) attachment. 三有爲法 The three active) functioning dharmas: (1) pratigha, matter or form, i. e. that which has ' substantial resistance'; (2) mind; and (3) 非色非心 entities neither of matter nor mind; cf. 七十五法. 三有爲相 The three forms of all phenomena, birth, stay (i. e. 1ife), death; utpāda, sthiti, and nirvana.

上す

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 nobosu
    のぼす
(Godan verb with "su" ending) (kyb:) to raise; to record; to bring up (a matter); to serve (food term); to send someone out

不管

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bù guǎn
    bu4 guan3
pu kuan
not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter

不論


不论

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bù lùn
    bu4 lun4
pu lun
 furon
whatever; no matter what (who, how etc); regardless of; not to discuss
not discussed

主流

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zhǔ liú
    zhu3 liu2
chu liu
 shuryuu / shuryu
    しゅりゅう
main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point; main viewpoint of a matter; mainstream (culture etc)
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) (the) mainstream; (2) main course (of a river); main stream

了了

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liǎo liǎo
    liao3 liao3
liao liao
 ryōryō
to realize clearly; to settle a matter; to get it over with
perfectly clear

了事

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liǎo shì
    liao3 shi4
liao shih
to dispose of a matter; to be done with it

了斷


了断

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liǎo duàn
    liao3 duan4
liao tuan
to bring to a conclusion; to resolve (a dispute etc); to put an end to (once and for all); to break off (a relationship); to commit suicide; resolution (of a matter)

了義


了义

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liǎo yì
    liao3 yi4
liao i
 ryougi / ryogi
    りょうぎ
(given name) Ryōgi
Revelation of the whole meaning, or truth, as 不了義 is partial revelation adapted (方便) to the capacity of the hearers.

事假

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shì jià
    shi4 jia4
shih chia
leave of absence for a personal matter

事兒


事儿

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shì r
    shi4 r5
shih r
one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; erhua variant of 事[shi4]; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]

事情

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shì qing
    shi4 qing5
shih ch`ing
    shih ching
 jijou / jijo
    じじょう
affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs

事柄

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 kotogara
    ことがら
matter; thing; affair; circumstance

事機


事机

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shì jī
    shi4 ji1
shih chi
confidential aspects of a matter; secrets; key moment for action

事由

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shì yóu
    shi4 you2
shih yu
 jiyuu / jiyu
    じゆう
main content; matter; work; origin of an incident; cause; purpose; subject (of business letter)
reason; cause; whys and wherefores; particulars

事緣


事缘

see styles
shì yuán
    shi4 yuan2
shih yüan
 jien
matter

事象

see styles
 jishou / jisho
    じしょう
event; phenomenon; matter

五蘊


五蕴

see styles
wǔ yùn
    wu3 yun4
wu yün
 goun / gon
    ごうん
the Five Aggregates (from Sanskrit "skandha") (Buddhism)
{Buddh} the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness); the five aggregates
The five skandhas, pañca-skandha: also 五陰; 五衆; 五塞犍陀 The five cumulations, substances, or aggregates, i. e. the components of an intelligent being, specially a human being: (1) 色 rūpa, form, matter, the physical form related to the five organs of sense; (2) 受 vedana, reception, sensation, feeling, the functioning of the mind or senses in connection with affairs and things; (3) 想 saṃjñā, conception, or discerning; the functioning of mind in distinguishing; (4) 行 saṃskāra, the functioning of mind in its processes regarding like and dislike, good and evil, etc.; (5) 識 vijñāna, mental faculty in regard to perception and cognition, discriminative of affairs and things. The first is said to be physical, the other four mental qualities; (2), (3), and (4) are associated with mental functioning, and therefore with 心所; (5) is associated with the faculty or nature of the mind 心王 manas. Eitel gives— form, perception, consciousness, action, knowledge. See also Keith's Buddhist Philosophy, 85-91.

五陰


五阴

see styles
wǔ yīn
    wu3 yin1
wu yin
 goon
    ごおん
(archaism) {Buddh} (See 五蘊) the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness); the five aggregates
五衆 see 五蘊. 陰 is the older term.

他所

see styles
tā suǒ
    ta1 suo3
t`a so
    ta so
 tasho
    よそ
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) (kana only) another place; somewhere else; strange parts; (2) (kana only) outside (one's family or group); those people; (3) (kana only) unrelated matter; (1) another place; somewhere else; elsewhere; (2) (archaism) moving (to another place)
otherwise

付物

see styles
 tsukimono
    つきもの
(1) essential part; indispensable part; unavoidable part; accompaniment; appendage; accessory; (2) front and back matter (of a book, magazine, etc.)

付議

see styles
 fugi
    ふぎ
(noun/participle) bringing up a matter; discussion; debate; submission (e.g. a measure); referral (e.g. bill to a committee); placing (e.g. item on an agenda)

代誌


代志

see styles
dài zhì
    dai4 zhi4
tai chih
(Tw) (coll.) matter; thing (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [tāi-tsì], equivalent to Mandarin 事情[shi4 qing5])
See: 代志

仮令

see styles
 tatoe
    たとえ
    tatoi
    たとい
(adverb) (kana only) even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing; supposing that; -ever

任憑


任凭

see styles
rèn píng
    ren4 ping2
jen p`ing
    jen ping
no matter what; despite; to allow (sb to act arbitrarily)

何々

see styles
 naninani
    なになに
(pn,adj-no) (1) such and such (when being vague, placeholder, etc.); this and that; (interjection) (2) What?; What is the matter?; What are the items?

何ぼ

see styles
 nanbo; nanbo
    なんぼ; ナンボ
(adverb) (1) (kana only) (esp. used in Kansai) (See いくら・1) how much; how many; how; to what extent; (adverb) (2) (kana only) (as なんぼ...〜ても, なんぼ...〜でも, etc.) (See いくら・3) however (much); no matter how; (adverb) (3) (kana only) (as 〜てなんぼ) what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...; nothing beats ...

何事

see styles
hé shì
    he2 shi4
ho shih
 kaji
    なにごと
(1) what; something; everything; (2) nothing (with neg. verb); (3) something or other; unspecified matter
how?

何何

see styles
 naninani
    なになに
(pn,adj-no) (1) such and such (when being vague, placeholder, etc.); this and that; (interjection) (2) What?; What is the matter?; What are the items?

何用

see styles
hé yòng
    he2 yong4
ho yung
 naniyou / naniyo
    なによう
(expression) what kind of business; what sort of matter
how?

余所

see styles
 yoso
    よそ
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) (kana only) another place; somewhere else; strange parts; (2) (kana only) outside (one's family or group); those people; (3) (kana only) unrelated matter; (surname) Yoso

依頼

see styles
 irai
    いらい
(noun, transitive verb) (1) request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); (n,vs,vi) (2) dependence; reliance

係う

see styles
 kakazurau
    かかずらう
(v5u,vi) (1) (kana only) to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter); (2) to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality); (3) to take part (in some work); to hang about; to bother (someone)

先決


先决

see styles
xiān jué
    xian1 jue2
hsien chüeh
 senketsu
    せんけつ
prerequisite; necessary
(noun, transitive verb) deciding first; settling (a matter) first; first priority

兒戲


儿戏

see styles
ér xì
    er2 xi4
erh hsi
child's play; trifling matter

内容

see styles
 naiyou / naiyo
    ないよう
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import

凶事

see styles
xiōng shì
    xiong1 shi4
hsiung shih
 kyouji / kyoji
    きょうじ
fateful accident; inauspicious matter (involving death or casualties)
calamity; misfortune

出體


出体

see styles
chū tǐ
    chu1 ti3
ch`u t`i
    chu ti
 shuttai
External; the components of a thing or matter; to put forth a body.

分心

see styles
fēn xīn
    fen1 xin1
fen hsin
to divert one's attention; to get distracted; (courteous) to be so good as to take care of (a matter)

別件

see styles
 bekken
    べっけん
(noun - becomes adjective with の) separate case; another matter; different matter; another project

別儀

see styles
 betsugi
    べつぎ
another affair; special matter

別管


别管

see styles
bié guǎn
    bie2 guan3
pieh kuan
no matter (who, what etc)

別論


别论

see styles
bié lùn
    bie2 lun4
pieh lun
 betsuron
a different matter; another story; (old) objection
specific explanation

刨根

see styles
páo gēn
    pao2 gen1
p`ao ken
    pao ken
lit. to dig up the root; to get to the heart of (the matter)

前件

see styles
qián jiàn
    qian2 jian4
ch`ien chien
    chien chien
 zenken
    ぜんけん
antecedent (logic)
(1) (See 後件・1) (the) aforementioned; previous matter; (2) {logic} (See 後件・2) antecedent

十宗

see styles
shí zōng
    shi2 zong1
shih tsung
 jūshū
The ten schools of Chinese Buddhism: I. The (1) 律宗 Vinaya-discipline, or 南山|; (2) 倶舍 Kośa, Abhidharma, or Reality (Sarvāstivādin) 有宗; (3) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect founded on this śāstra by Harivarman; (4) 三論宗 Mādhyamika or 性空宗; (5) 法華宗 Lotus, "Law-flower" or Tiantai 天台宗; (6) 華嚴Huayan or法性 or賢首宗; ( 7) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣana or 慈恩宗 founded on the唯識論 (8) 心宗 Ch'an or Zen, mind-only or intuitive, v. 禪宗 ; (9) 眞言宗 (Jap. Shingon) or esoteric 密宗 ; (10) 蓮宗 Amitābha-lotus or Pure Land (Jap. Jōdo) 淨士宗. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 9th are found in Japan rather than in China, where they have ceased to be of importance. II. The Hua-yen has also ten divisions into ten schools of thought: (1) 我法倶有 the reality of self (or soul) and things, e.g. mind and matter; (2) 法有我無 the reality of things but not of soul; (3) 法無去來 things have neither creation nor destruction; (4) 現通假實 present things are both apparent and real; (5) 俗妄眞實 common or phenomenal ideas are wrong, fundamental reality is the only truth; (6) things are merely names; (7) all things are unreal 空; (8) the bhūtatathatā is not unreal; (9) phenomena and their perception are to be got rid of; (10) the perfect, all-inclusive, and complete teaching of the One Vehicle. III. There are two old Japanese divisions: 大乘律宗, 倶舎宗 , 成實 宗 , 法和宗 , 三論宗 , 天台宗 , 華嚴宗 , 眞言宗 , 小乘律宗 , and 淨土宗 ; the second list adds 禪宗 and omits 大乘律宗. They are the Ritsu, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Hossō, Sanron, Tendai, Kegon, Shingon, (Hīnayāna) Ritsu, and Jōdo; the addition being Zen.

參酌


参酌

see styles
cān zhuó
    can1 zhuo2
ts`an cho
    tsan cho
to consider (a matter); to deliberate
See: 参酌

収拾

see styles
 shuushuu / shushu
    しゅうしゅう
(noun, transitive verb) control; bringing under control; settling (a matter); putting in order

只事

see styles
 tadagoto
    ただごと
trivial matter

同慶

see styles
 doukei / doke
    どうけい
matter for mutual congratulation

名色

see styles
míng sè
    ming2 se4
ming se
 nashiki
    なしき
{Buddh} (See 十二因縁) namarupa; name and form; (place-name) Nashiki
nāmarūpa, name-form, or name and form, one of the twelve nidānas. In Brahminical tradition it served 'to denote spirit and matter', 'the concrete individual', Keith; in Buddhism it is intp. as the 五蘊 five skandhas or aggregates, i, e. a 'body', 受, 想, 行, and 識 vedana, saṃjñā, karman, and vijñāna being the 'name' and 色 rupa the 'form'; the first-named four are mental and the last material. 色 Rupa is described as the minutest particle of matter, that which has resistance; the embryonic body or foetus is a nāmarūpa, something that can be named.

哪怕

see styles
nǎ pà
    na3 pa4
na p`a
    na pa
even; even if; even though; no matter how

唯事

see styles
wéi shì
    wei2 shi4
wei shih
 yuiji
    ただごと
trivial matter
a bare entity

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