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There are 25 total results for your Tengu search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

天狗

see styles
tiān gǒu
    tian1 gou3
t`ien kou
    tien kou
 tengu
    てんぐ

More info & calligraphy:

Tengu
(1) tengu; red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains; (2) (idiom) bragging; conceit; braggart; boaster; conceited person; (surname) Tengu
ulkā, 憂流迦the 'heavenly dog' i. e. a meteor. Also 'a star in Argo' according to Williams.

天貢

see styles
 tengu
    てんぐ
(place-name) Tengu

展具

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zhǎn jù
    zhan3 ju4
chan chü
 tengu
spread cloth

鼻高

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 hanataka; hanadaka
    はなたか; はなだか
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) having a prominent nose; having a long nose; person with a prominent nose; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) prideful; boastful; prideful person; (3) (See 天狗・1) tengu; (place-name) Hanadaka

八天狗

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 hattengu
    はってんぐ
(See 天狗・1) hattengu; tengu said to live among the 8 mountains of Atago, Hira, Daisen, Ōmine, Kurama, Iizuna, Hiko, and Shiramine

大天狗

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 daitengu; ootengu
    だいてんぐ; おおてんぐ
(1) (See 天狗・1) large tengu; powerful tengu; (2) (idiom) (See 天狗・2) big braggart; blowhard

天狗物

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 tengumono
    てんぐもの
(See 能・2,天狗・1) category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece

天狗話

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 tengubanashi
    てんぐばなし
(1) (idiom) boastful story; (2) (See 天狗・1) story about tengu

天狗道

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 tengudou / tengudo
    てんぐどう
(See 天狗・1) world of the tengu; hell of the long-nosed goblins

小天狗

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 kotengu
    こてんぐ
(1) (See 天狗・1) small tengu; (2) (idiom) promising young martial arts practitioner

金天狗

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 kintengu
    きんてんぐ
(See 天狗・1) golden tengu

上昇天宮


上昇天宫

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shàng shēng tiān gōng
    shang4 sheng1 tian1 gong1
shang sheng t`ien kung
    shang sheng tien kung
 jōshō tengū
to ascend to the heavenly palace

天宮寶藏


天宫宝藏

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tiān gōng bǎo zàng
    tian1 gong1 bao3 zang4
t`ien kung pao tsang
    tien kung pao tsang
 tengū hōzō
treasury of the sūtras

天狗の滝

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 tengunotaki
    てんぐのたき
(place-name) Tengu Falls

天狗俳諧

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 tenguhaikai
    てんぐはいかい
(See 天狗・1) parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haiku

天狗倒し

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 tengudaoshi
    てんぐだおし
(from the idea that such sounds came from trees being felled by tengu) (See 天狗・1) large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain

天狗太郎

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 tengutarou / tengutaro
    てんぐたろう
(person) Tengu Tarō

木端天狗

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 koppatengu
    こっぱてんぐ
(See 木の葉天狗・このはてんぐ) weak tengu (goblin)

鞍馬天狗

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 kuramatengu
    くらまてんぐ
(See 天狗・1) Kurama tengu; tengu of Kyoto's Mount Kurama, said to have taught the art of war to Minamoto no Yoshitsune

天狗になる

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 tenguninaru
    てんぐになる
(exp,v5r) (idiom) (See 天狗・てんぐ・1) to get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; to become a tengu

木の葉天狗

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 konohatengu
    このはてんぐ
(exp,n) (See 天狗・1) weak tengu

天狗トンネル

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 tengutonneru
    てんぐトンネル
(place-name) Tengu Tunnel

Variations:
天狗話
天狗咄

see styles
 tengubanashi
    てんぐばなし
(1) (idiom) boastful story; (2) (See 天狗・1) story about tengu

Variations:
烏天狗
鴉天狗

see styles
 karasutengu
    からすてんぐ
(See 天狗・1) small, crow-billed tengu

Variations:
木っ葉天狗
木葉天狗
木っ端天狗
木端天狗

see styles
 koppatengu
    こっぱてんぐ
(rare) (See 天狗・1,木の葉天狗) weak tengu; small tengu

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

This page contains 25 results for "Tengu" 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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