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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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xiè
    xie4
hsieh
(of porridge etc) to become watery; (dialect) to thin (porridge etc) by adding water etc


𬇕

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màn
    man4
man
variant of 漫[man4]; overflow of water; spreading

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liàn
    lian4
lien
(literary) to moisten; to wet; to soak in water

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chán
    chan2
ch`an
    chan
still (as of water); still water


𣸣

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fén
    fen2
fen
edge of water

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huì
    hui4
hui
vast; expansive (as of water)

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sōng
    song1
sung
(onom.) sound of water


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yíng
    ying2
ying
(archaic) (of water) to swirl; to eddy; (used in place names)

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huò
    huo4
huo
cook; dashing of water


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bīn
    bin1
pin
 hin
    ひん
(bound form) water's edge; bank; shore; (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc)
(surname) Hin


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yíng
    ying2
ying
clear; limpid (of water)


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liú
    liu2
liu
 ryuu / ryu
    りゅう
clear; deep (of water); swift
(female given name) Ryū


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xiāo
    xiao1
hsiao
(of water) deep and clear; (of wind and rain) howling and pounding; (of light rain) pattering


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lài
    lai4
lai
name of a river; rushing of water

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    ji4
chi
(literary) spring water gushing out


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liàn
    lian4
lien
 ren
    れん
full of water; trough
(female given name) Ren

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jiàn
    jian4
chien
to arrive (of water)

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chán
    chan2
ch`an
    chan
sound of water


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lán
    lan2
lan
 ran
swelling water
wave

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guàn
    guan4
kuan
 kan
to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music)
To water, sprinkle, pour; to flow together, or into, accumulate.

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    mi3
mi
(used to describe flowing water)


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hào
    hao4
hao
vast (of water)

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nǎng
    nang3
nang
muddy; thick, muddy water

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    hu1
hu
to cook in a small quantity of water

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tuì
    tui4
t`ui
    tui
to pluck poultry or depilate pigs using hot water


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qiàng
    qiang4
ch`iang
    chiang
to stir-fry then cook with sauce and water; to boil food briefly then dress with soy etc; to choke; to irritate (throat etc)


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shāo
    shao1
shao
 shō
to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head
To burn.


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tàng
    tang4
t`ang
    tang
to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (something) up in hot water; to perm; to iron; scalding hot


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huì
    hui4
hui
to braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water

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piàn
    pian4
p`ien
    pien
 hen
    へん
thin piece; flake; a slice; film; TV play; to slice; to carve thin; partial; incomplete; one-sided; classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water; classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc; used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc; Kangxi radical 91
(counter) (See 一片・いっぺん・1) counter for scraps, fragments, petals, etc.; (surname) Katayanagi
A slice, slip, card; brief, few.


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xiǎn
    xian3
hsien
 sen
to hunt in autumn (archaic)
markaṭa, 獮猴 a monkey, typical of the mind of illusion, pictured as trying to pluck the moon out of the water; also of the five desires; of foolishness; of restlessness.

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píng
    ping2
p`ing
    ping
 kamebyō
variant of 瓶[ping2]
A bottle, vase, jar, pitcher, etc.


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wèng
    weng4
weng
 tashiraka
    たしらか
pottery container for water, wine etc
(archaism) fired earthenware vessel used by the emperor to clean his hands; (surname) Yō
kumbha, a pitcher, jar, pot.

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pīng
    ping1
p`ing
    ping
(old) (onom.) sound of water against rocks


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    qi4
ch`i
    chi
 seki
    せき
(bound form) moraine; rocks in shallow water
dry river bed; river beach; (surname) Seki

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    xi4
hsi
 misogi
    みそぎ
semiannual ceremony of purification
(noun/participle) {Shinto} purification ceremony (performed with water); ritual purification; ablutions; (female given name) Misogi

穿

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chuān
    chuan1
ch`uan
    chuan
 haku
    はく
to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread
(female given name) Haku
To bore, pierce; to thread; to don, put on. To bore a well and gradually discover water, likened to the gradual discovery of the Buddha-nature.

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kuǎn
    kuan3
k`uan
    kuan
crack; hollow; cavity; to excavate or hollow out; (onom.) water hitting rock; (old) variant of 款[kuan3]


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shāi
    shai1
shai
 furui
    ふるい
(bound form) a sieve; to sieve; to sift; to filter; to eliminate through selection; to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water); to pour (wine or tea); (dialect) to strike (a gong)
(1) sieve; sifter; screen; (2) screening (jobs, candidates, etc.)

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lín
    lin2
lin
clear (as of water)


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gěng
    geng3
keng
(literary) well rope (for drawing water)

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fǒu
    fou3
fou
 hotogi
    ほとぎ
pottery
(1) fat-bodied, small-mouthed earthenware jar for carrying water; (2) water vessel used for a baby's first bath; (surname) Hotogi

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lǎn
    lan3
lan
a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net; to dredge with such a tool

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fān
    fan1
fan
 hapaki
    はぱき
to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross
(irregular okurigana usage) waste-water container (tea ceremony); (surname) Hapaki
繙 To translate, interpret.

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shǎi
    shai3
shai
 shoku
    しょく
(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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    ji4
chi
(archaic) water caltrop (Trapa natans)

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qín
    qin2
ch`in
    chin
 seri
    せり
Chinese celery
(kana only) Java water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica); Japanese parsley; (surname, female given name) Seri

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mǎo
    mao3
mao
type of water plant; (dialect) loess hills

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    he4
ho
 ni
    に
to carry on one's shoulder or back; burden; responsibility
(1) load; baggage; cargo; freight; goods; (2) burden; responsibility; (personal name) Hasu
A small-leaved water-lily, a marshmallow; to carry bear.

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jun
    jun1
chün
species of water plant


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hūn
    hun1
hun
 kun
    くん
strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar; obscene
(1) strong-smelling vegetable (esp. garlic, onion, Chinese chives, Chinese scallion, Japanese garlic); (2) pungent vegetable (esp. ginger and water pepper)
Strongly smelling vegetables, e.g. onions, garlic, leeks, etc., forbidden to Buddhist vegetarians; any non-vegetarian food.


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chún
    chun2
ch`un
    chun
edible water plant; Brasenia schreberi

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xuān
    xuan1
hsüan
a kind of smelly water plant

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    lu4
lu
 tade; tade
    たで; タデ
luxuriant growth
(1) (kana only) knotweed (Polygonaceae); jointweed; smartweed; (2) (kana only) (See 柳蓼) water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper); (surname) Tade

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    yu2
common water-plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)

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    xi4
hsi
plantain (Plantago asiatica); common water-plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)

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xiá
    xia2
hsia
water-lily leaves

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wèng
    weng4
weng
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia; Taiwan pr. [yong1]

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ǒu
    ou3
ou
 
    はす
root of lotus
(kana only) sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera); Indian lotus; lotus
The water-lily root, arrowroot.

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    fu2
fu
(water-beetle); money


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lún
    lun2
lun
 rin
    りん
wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn
(counter) counter for wheels and flowers; (female given name) Run
cakra; wheel, disc, rotation, to revolve; v. 研. The three wheels are 惑業苦illusion, karma, suffering, in constant revolution. The five are earth, water, fire, wind, and space; the earth rests on revolving spheres of water, fire, wind, and space. The nine are seen on the tops of pagodas, cf. 九輪.; The two wheels of a cart compared by the Tiantai school to 定 (or to its Tiantai form 止觀) and 慧 meditation and wisdom; see 止觀 5. Also 食 food and 法 the doctrine, i. e. food physical and spiritual.

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shì
    shi4
shih
 sumiyo
    すみよ
(of flowing water or time) to pass by; to pass away; to die
(personal name) Sumiyo
Pass away, depart, die, evanescent.

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jiàng
    jiang4
chiang
 hishio
    ひしお
Japanese variant of 醬|酱[jiang4]
(1) paste similar to miso made from koji mold and salt water; (2) watery mash left over from making soy sauce; (personal name) Katsuzawa

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wàn
    wan4
wan
 ban
    ばん
(surname) Ban
Translit. vaṃ, associated with water and the ocean; also, the embodiment of wisdom.


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zhá
    zha2
cha
 hinokuchi
    ひのくち
sluice; sluice gate; to dam up water; (coll.) brake; (coll.) electric switch
(surname) Hinokuchi

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 rei / re
    れい
(noun/participle) drop (of water); drip; (female given name) Rei

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yǐn
    yin3
yin
 on
variant of 飲|饮[yin3]
To drink, swallow; to water cattle.


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yìn
    yin4
yin
 in
    いん
to give (animals) water to drink
drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol); drink; drinking party; (surname) Nomi

鮿

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zhé
    zhe2
che
(fresh-water fish)

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zhuān
    zhuan1
chuan
fish (meaning variable: mackerel, anchovy, fresh-water fish)

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 okami
    おかみ
(rare) water god; rain and snow god; dragon god; dragon king

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chōng
    chong1
ch`ung
    chung
(literary) (of a mountain stream) to flow down; (onom.) sound of flowing water

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chún
    chun2
ch`un
    chun
clear water

WC

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 daburyuu shii; daburyuushii(sk) / daburyu shi; daburyushi(sk)
    ダブリュー・シー; ダブリューシー(sk)
water closet; toilet; lavatory; restroom; bathroom

ウベ

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 ube
    ウベ
(See 大薯) water yam (Dioscorea alata) (fil: ube); winged yam; purple yam; (personal name) Uwe

お冷

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 ohiya
    おひや
cold (drinking) water; cold boiled rice

お水

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 omizu
    おみず
(1) (a cup of) water; (adjectival noun) (2) racy; titillating; sexy; suggestive

お湯

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 oyu
    おゆ
(1) (polite language) hot water; (2) (polite language) hot bath

さ湯

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 sayu
    さゆ
(plain) hot water; boiled water

ろ水

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 rosui
    ろすい
(1) filtered water; (2) drainage

一水

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yī shuǐ
    yi1 shui3
i shui
 issui
    いっすい
current (of water); drop; (female given name) Hitomi
one (body of) water

一菊

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 ikkiku
    いっきく
one scoop (of water)

七大

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qī dà
    qi1 da4
ch`i ta
    chi ta
 shichidai
Earth , water, fire, wind, space (or ether), sight, and perception 地, 水, 火, 風, 空, 見, 証識; cf. 大, 五大and 六境; 見大 and 六根; 識大 and 六識.

七曜

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qī yào
    qi1 yao4
ch`i yao
    chi yao
 shichiyou / shichiyo
    しちよう
the seven planets of premodern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
(1) {astron} the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn); (2) the seven days of the week
The seven brilliant ones — the sun and moon, together with the five planets which are connected with fire, water, wood, metal, and earth. Their essence shines in the sky, but their spirits are over men as judges of their good and evil, and as rulers over good and evil fortune. The following list shows their names in Chinese and Sanskrit:
Sun 日, 太陽; aditya 阿彌底耶
Moon月, 太陰; soma 蘇摩
Mars火星, 勢惑勞; aṅgāraka 盎哦囉迦
Mercury水星, 辰星; budha 部陀
Jupiter木星, 歳星; bṛhaspati 勿哩訶娑跛底
Venus金星, 太白; śukra 戌羯羅
Saturn土星, 鎭星; śanaiścara 賖乃以室折羅.

三廢


三废

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sān fèi
    san1 fei4
san fei
three types of waste product, namely: waste water 廢水|废水[fei4 shui3], exhaust gas 廢氣|废气[fei4 qi4], industrial slag 廢渣|废渣[fei4 zha1]

三水

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sān shuǐ
    san1 shui3
san shui
 sanzui
    さんずい
Sanshui, a district of Foshan 佛山市[Fo2shan1 Shi4], Guangdong
kanji "water" radical (radical 85); (surname) Mimizu

三災


三灾

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sān zāi
    san1 zai1
san tsai
 sansai
    さんさい
the three calamities: fire, flood and storm
The three calamities; they are of two kinds, minor and major. The minor, appearing during a decadent world-period, are sword, pestilence, and famine; the major, for world-destruction, are fire, water, and wind. 倶舍諭 12.

三細


三细

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sān xì
    san1 xi4
san hsi
 sansai
The three refined, or subtle conceptions, in contrast with the 六麤 cruder or common concepts, in the Awakening of Faith 起信論. The three are 無明業相 "ignorance", or the unenlightened condition, considered as in primal action, the stirring of the perceptive faculty; 能見相 ability to perceive phenomena; perceptive faculties; 境界相 the object perceived, or the empirical world. The first is associated with the 體corpus or substance, the second and third with function, but both must have co-existence, e.g. water and waves. v. 六麤.

三金

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sān jīn
    san1 jin1
san chin
 mikane
    みかね
(surname) Mikane
The three metals, gold, silver, copper. The esoterics have (a) earth, water, fire, representing the 身密 mystic body; (b) space and wind, the 語密 mystic mouth or speech; (c) 識 cognition, the 意密 mystic mind.

上る

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 agaru
    あがる
(v5r,vi) (1) to ascend; to go up; to climb; (2) to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the sun); to rise; (3) to go to (the capital); (4) to be promoted; (5) to add up to; (6) to advance (in price); (7) to swim up (a river); to sail up; (8) to come up (on the agenda); (irregular okurigana usage) (v5r,vi) (1) to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised; (2) to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in; (3) to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; (4) to get out (of water); to come ashore; (5) to increase; (6) to improve; to make progress; (7) to be promoted; to advance; (8) to be made (of profit, etc.); (9) to occur (esp. of a favourable result); (10) to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.); (11) to be finished; to be done; to be over; (12) (of rain) to stop; to lift; (13) to stop (working properly); to cut out; to give out; to die; (14) to win (in a card game, etc.); (15) to be spoken loudly; (16) to get stage fright; (17) to be offered (to the gods, etc.); (18) (humble language) to go; to visit; (19) (honorific or respectful language) to eat; to drink; (20) to be listed (as a candidate); (21) to serve (in one's master's home); (22) to go north; (suf,v5r) (23) indicates completion; (place-name) Agaru

上波

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 uwanami
    うわなみ
(archaism) wave (on the water's surface); (surname) Uenami

下水

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xià shui
    xia4 shui5
hsia shui
 shitamizu
    したみず
offal; viscera; tripe
(1) water flowing underneath; one's true feelings; (2) (as in 泰) kanji "water" radical at bottom (radical 85); (surname) Shimomizu

中層


中层

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zhōng céng
    zhong1 ceng2
chung ts`eng
    chung tseng
 chuusou / chuso
    ちゅうそう
middle-ranking
(1) middle part; medium depth (water); medium layer; middle lamella; (can be adjective with の) (2) medium-size; mid-level; medium-rise (building)

中水

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zhōng shuǐ
    zhong1 shui3
chung shui
 nakamizu
    なかみず
reclaimed water; recycled water
(surname) Nakamizu

乳水

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rǔ shuǐ
    ru3 shui3
ju shui
 nyūsui
milky water

乾式

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 kanshiki
    かんしき
(adj-no,n) dry (method); dry-type; without using water

乾水

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 kansui
    かんすい
lye water (for making Chinese noodles)

乾潮


干潮

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gān cháo
    gan1 chao2
kan ch`ao
    kan chao
low tide; low water
See: 干潮

乾煸


干煸

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gān biān
    gan1 bian1
kan pien
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)

二因

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èr yīn
    er4 yin1
erh yin
 niin / nin
    にいん
{Buddh} two causes
Two causes, of which there are various definitions: (1) 生因 The producing cause (of all good things); and 了因 the revealing or illuminating cause i.e. knowledge, or wisdom. (2) 能生因 The 8th 識 q. v.: the cause that is able to produce all sense and perceptions, also all good and evil; and 方便因 the environmental or adaptive cause, which aids the 8th 識, as water or earth does the seed, etc. (3) 習因 or 同類因 Practice or habit as cause e. g. desire causing desire; and 報因 or 果熟因 the rewarding cause, or fruit-ripening cause, e. g. pleasure or pain caused by good or evil deeds. (4) 正因 Correct or direct cause i.e. the Buddha-nature of all beings; and 緣因 the contributory cause, or enlightenment (see 了因 above) which evolves the 正因 or Buddha-nature by good works. (5) 近因 Immediate or direct cause and 遠因 distant or indirect cause or causes.

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