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    lu:4

 ritsuji
    りつじ

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Ritsu
law
(1) law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; (2) {Buddh} vinaya (rules for the monastic community); (3) (abbreviation) (See 律宗) Ritsu (school of Buddhism); (4) (abbreviation) (See 律詩) lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (5) (also りち) (musical) pitch; (6) (See 十二律,呂・2) six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; (7) (abbreviation) (See 律旋) Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do); (n,n-suf,ctr) (8) step (in traditional Eastern music, corresponding to a Western semitone); (personal name) Ritsuji
vinaya, from vi-ni, to 1ead, train: discipline: v. 毘奈耶; other names are Prātimokṣa, śīla, and upalakṣa. The discipline, or monastic rules; one of the three divisions of the Canon, or Tripiṭaka, and said to have been compiled by Upāli.

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    fa3
fa
 minori
    みのり

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Dharma / The Law
law; method; way; to emulate; (Buddhism) dharma; (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists; (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])
(n,n-suf) (1) law; act; principle; (n,n-suf) (2) method; (n,n-suf) (3) {gramm} mood; (n,n-suf) (4) {Buddh} dharma; law; (female given name) Minori
Dharma, 達磨; 曇無 (or 曇摩); 達摩 (or 達謨) Law, truth, religion, thing, anything Buddhist. Dharma is 'that which is held fast or kept, ordinance, statute, law, usage, practice, custom'; 'duty'; 'right'; 'proper'; 'morality'; 'character'. M. W. It is used in the sense of 一切 all things, or anything small or great, visible or invisible, real or unreal, affairs, truth, principle, method, concrete things, abstract ideas, etc. Dharma is described as that which has entity and bears its own attributes. It connotes Buddhism as the perfect religion; it also has the second place in the triratna 佛法僧, and in the sense of 法身 dharmakāya it approaches the Western idea of 'spiritual'. It is also one of the six media of sensation, i. e. the thing or object in relation to mind, v. 六塵.

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yáng
    yang2
yang
 youji / yoji
    ようじ

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Ocean
ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin
(1) Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); (2) ocean; sea; (prefix) (3) foreign; Western; European; (personal name) Yōji


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luó
    luo2
lo
 rou / ro
    ろう

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Rowe
gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift
(abbreviation) (See 羅甸語) Latin (language); (surname) Rou
A net (for catching birds), gauze, open work; sieve; to arrange in order; translit. la and ra sounds, e.g. 南羅 S. Lāra; Lāḍa; Lāṭa, in Gujarāt; 北羅 N. Lāra, Valabhī, on the western coast of Gujarāt.

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guó
    guo2
kuo

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Guo
surname Guo; Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國|西虢国[Xi1 Guo2 guo2] and Eastern Guo 東虢國|东虢国[Dong1 Guo2 guo2]

西

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    xi1
hsi
 nishihama
    にしはま

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West
west
(1) {mahj} west wind tile; (2) {mahj} winning hand with a pung (or kong) of west wind tiles; (surname) Nishihama
paścima, 跛室制麽; west; it is largely used in the limited sense of Kashmir in such terms as 西方 the west, or western regions; but it is also much used for the western heavens of Amitābha; 西天 is India, the western 天竺國.


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    ma3
ma
 me
    め

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Horse
horse; CL:匹[pi3]; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
(1) horse; (2) (See 競馬) horse racing; (3) (abbreviation) {shogi} (See 竜馬・2) promoted bishop; (4) {cards} knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta); (surname) Me
aśva, a horse; a stallion; one of the seven treasures of a sovereign.

じゃ

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 ja
    じゃ
(cop) (1) (western Japanese; also freq. used in animation and foreign-language dubbing to indicate a person is old) (See だ) be; is; (expression) (2) (abbreviation) (colloquialism) (See じゃない・2) isn't it?

中国

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 nakakuni
    なかくに

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China
(1) (ちゅうごく only) (See 中華人民共和国) China; (2) (ちゅうごく only) (abbreviation) (See 中国地方) Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); (3) (ちゅうごく only) central part of a country; main region; (4) province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryō system); (surname) Nakakuni

咪咪

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mī mī
    mi1 mi1
mi mi

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Mimi
oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc; (onom.) meow; kitty kitty!; Mimi (Western name); tits (i.e. slang for breasts)

啟蒙


启蒙

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qǐ méng
    qi3 meng2
ch`i meng
    chi meng

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Enlightenment
to instruct the young; to initiate; to awake sb from ignorance; to free sb from prejudice or superstition; primer; enlightened; the Enlightenment; Western learning from the late Qing dynasty

帕斯

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pà sī
    pa4 si1
p`a ssu
    pa ssu

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Paz
Perth, capital of Western Australia

歌劇


歌剧

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gē jù
    ge1 ju4
ko chü
 kageki
    かげき

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Opera
Western opera; CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1]
(See オペラ) opera

浄土

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 joudo / jodo
    じょうど

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Pure Land / Jodo
(1) {Buddh} pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise; (2) (abbreviation) Pure Land Buddhism; (surname) Jōdo

淨土


净土

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jìng tǔ
    jing4 tu3
ching t`u
    ching tu
 jōdo

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Pure Land / Jodo
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
Sukhāvatī. The Pure Land, or Paradise of the West, presided over by Amitābha. Other Buddhas have their Pure Lands; seventeen other kinds of pure land are also described, all of them of moral or spiritual conditions of development, e.g. the pure land of patience, zeal, wisdom, etc.

珀斯

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pò sī
    po4 si1
p`o ssu
    po ssu

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Perth
Perth, capital of Western Australia; also written 帕斯

班固

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bān gù
    ban1 gu4
pan ku
 hanko
    はんこ

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Hanko
Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
(surname) Hanko

琉球

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liú qiú
    liu2 qiu2
liu ch`iu
    liu chiu
 ryuukyuu / ryukyu
    りゅうきゅう

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Ryukyu
Ryūkyū; refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan to Taiwan; Liuchiu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
(See 沖縄) Ryukyu; chain of southwestern Japanese islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture; (place-name) Ryūkyū

瑙魯


瑙鲁

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nǎo lǔ
    nao3 lu3
nao lu

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Nauru
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific

白虎

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bái hǔ
    bai2 hu3
pai hu
 byakko
    びゃっこ

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White Tiger
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky); (slang) hairless female genitalia
(1) (See 四神) White Tiger (Taoist god said to rule over the western heavens); (2) {astron} (See 二十八宿) seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the western heavens; (given name) Byakko

西欧

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 seiou / seo
    せいおう

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Western Europe
(1) (See 東欧) Western Europe; (2) the West; the Occident; Europe; (place-name) Seiou

西歐


西欧

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xī ōu
    xi1 ou1
hsi ou

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Western Europe
Western Europe
See: 西欧

截拳道

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jié quán dào
    jie2 quan2 dao4
chieh ch`üan tao
    chieh chüan tao
 jiikundoo / jikundoo
    ジークンドー

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Jeet Kune Do
Jeet Kun Do or Way of the Intercepting Fist, a fusion of Eastern and Western martial arts led by Bruce Lee 李小龍|李小龙[Li3 Xiao3 long2]
{MA} Jeet Kune Do; Way of the Intercepting Fist (martial art founded by Bruce Lee)

阿修羅


阿修罗

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ā xiū luó
    a1 xiu1 luo2
a hsiu lo
 ashura
    あしゅら

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Frightful Demon / Asura
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
{Buddh} Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology; (female given name) Ashura
asura, 修羅 originally meaning a spirit, spirits, or even the gods, it generally indicates titanic demons, enemies of the gods, with whom, especially Indra, they wage constant war. They are defined as 'not devas', and 'ugly', and 'without wine'. Other forms are 阿須羅 (or 阿蘇羅, or 阿素羅); 阿修倫 (or羅須倫 or 阿修輪 or 羅須輪); 阿素洛; 阿差. Four classes are named according to their manner of rebirth-egg, born, womb-born, transformation-born, and spawn- or water-born. Their abode is in the ocean, north of Sumeru, but certain of the weaker dwell in a western mountain cave. They have realms, rulers, and palaces, as have the devas. The 阿修羅道 is one of the six gatis, or ways of reincarnation. The 修羅場 or 修羅巷 is the battlefield of the asuras against Indra. The 阿修羅琴 are their harps.

トランプ

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 toranpu
    トランプ

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Trump
(Western) playing cards (eng: trump); (surname) Trump; (person) Trump, Donald (1946.6.14-; American businessman and politician)

波羅末陀


波罗末陀

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bō luó mò tuó
    bo1 luo2 mo4 tuo2
po lo mo t`o
    po lo mo to
 haramada

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Paramartha
paramārtha, the highest truth, ultimate truth, reality, fundamental meaning, 眞諦. Paramārtha, name of a famous monk from Western India, Guṇarata, v. 拘, whose title was 眞諦三藏; reached China 547 or 548, but the country was so disturbed that he set of to return by sea; his ship was driven back to Canton, where he translated some fifty works.

瓦努阿圖


瓦努阿图

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wǎ nǔ ā tú
    wa3 nu3 a1 tu2
wa nu a t`u
    wa nu a tu

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Vanuatu
Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean

西薩摩亞


西萨摩亚

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xī sà mó yà
    xi1 sa4 mo2 ya4
hsi sa mo ya

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Western Samoa
Western Samoa

阿彌陀佛


阿弥陀佛

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ē mí tuó fó
    e1 mi2 tuo2 fo2
o mi t`o fo
    o mi to fo
 Amida butsu

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Amitabha Buddha
Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!; merciful Buddha!
Amitâbha Buddha

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xià
    xia4
hsia
 shimo
    しも
down; downwards; below; lower; later; next (week etc); second (of two parts); to decline; to go down; to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc); measure word to show the frequency of an action
(1) (ant: 上・かみ・1) lower reaches (of a river); (2) bottom; lower part; (3) lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); urine; menses; (4) end; far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan); (can be adjective with の) (5) dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.); (place-name, surname) Shimo
hīna, adhara. Below, lower, inferior, low; to descend, let down, put down.


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shuài
    shuai4
shuai
 tsukasa
    つかさ
(bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
(See 大宰府) director of the Dazaifu; (given name) Tsukasa

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xiān
    xian1
hsien
 ken
Ahura Mazda, the creator deity in Zoroastrianism
Xian, commonly but incorrectly written 祅 a Western Asian name for Heaven, or the 天神 God of Heaven, adopted by the Zoroastrians and borrowed later by the Manicheans; also intp. as Maheśvara.

中原

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zhōng yuán
    zhong1 yuan2
chung yüan
 nakaraha
    なからは
Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
middle of a field; middle of a country; field of contest; (surname) Nakaraha

中西

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zhōng xī
    zhong1 xi1
chung hsi
 nakamura
    なかむら
China and the West; Chinese-Western
(personal name) Nakamura

丸襟

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 marueri
    まるえり
round collar (of Western clothing)

五涼


五凉

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wǔ liáng
    wu3 liang2
wu liang
the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)

伯耆

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 houki / hoki
    ほうき
(hist) Hōki (former province located in the central and western parts of present-day Tottori Prefecture); (place-name, surname) Houki

元月

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yuán yuè
    yuan2 yue4
yüan yüeh
first month (of either lunar or Western calendars)

先漢


先汉

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xiān hàn
    xian1 han4
hsien han
Western Han dynasty (206 BC–8 AD), aka 西漢|西汉[Xi1 Han4]

兩漢


两汉

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liǎng hàn
    liang3 han4
liang han
Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); refers to the Western Han and Eastern Han

内帯

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 naitai
    ないたい
(1) (See 外帯・1) area on the concave side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago; (2) (See 西南日本内帯) area of southwestern Japan north of the Median Tectonic Line

前漢


前汉

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qián hàn
    qian2 han4
ch`ien han
    chien han
 zenkan
    ぜんかん
Former Han dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 西漢|西汉[Xi1 Han4], Western Han dynasty
(hist) Former Han dynasty (of China; 206 BCE-9 CE); Western Han dynasty; (place-name) Zenkan
the former Han

劉安


刘安

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liú ān
    liu2 an1
liu an
 ryuuan / ryuan
    りゅうあん
Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子[Huai2 nan2 zi5]
(personal name) Ryūan

劉毅


刘毅

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liú yì
    liu2 yi4
liu i
Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265-316); Liu Yi (-412), general of Eastern Jin dynasty 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317-420)

劉淵


刘渊

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liú yuān
    liu2 yuan1
liu yüan
 ryuuen / ryuen
    りゅうえん
Liu Yuan (c. 251–310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4], founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成漢|成汉[Cheng2 Han4] (304–347)
(personal name) Ryūen

南蛮

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 nanban
    なんばん
(1) (hist) (derogatory term) southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south); (2) (hist) South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods); (3) (hist) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods); (prefix noun) (4) (hist) foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style); (5) (See 唐辛子・1) chili pepper; (6) (abbreviation) {food} (See 南蛮煮・2) nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions; (7) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)

周公

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zhōu gōng
    zhou1 gong1
chou kung
 shuukou / shuko
    しゅうこう
Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2], played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1], and is also known as the "God of Dreams"
(personal name) Shuukou

周勃

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zhōu bó
    zhou1 bo2
chou po
 shuubotsu / shubotsu
    しゅうぼつ
Zhou Bo (?-169 BC), military man and politician at the Qin-Han transition, a founding minister of Western Han
(personal name) Shuubotsu

周朝

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zhōu cháo
    zhou1 chao2
chou ch`ao
    chou chao
Zhou Dynasty; Western Zhou 西周 (1046-771 BC) and Eastern Zhou 東周|东周 (770-221 BC)

和洋

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 kazuhiro
    かずひろ
Japan and the West; Japanese style and Western style; (given name) Kazuhiro

哭牆


哭墙

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kū qiáng
    ku1 qiang2
k`u ch`iang
    ku chiang
Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem)

唇釉

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chún yòu
    chun2 you4
ch`un yu
    chun yu
(cosmetics) liquid lipstick (typically with a glossier, lacquer-like finish compared to Western liquid lipsticks, though matte formulas also exist)

嚴復


严复

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yán fù
    yan2 fu4
yen fu
Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences

四土

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sì tǔ
    si4 tu3
ssu t`u
    ssu tu
 shido
    しど
{Buddh} four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
The four Buddha-kṣetra, or realms, of Tiantai: (1) 凡聖居同土 Realms where all classes dwell— men, devas, Buddhas, disciples, non-disciples; it has two divisions, the impure, e. g. this world, and the pure, e. g. the 'Western' pure-land. (2) 方便有餘土 Temporary realms, where the occupants have got rid of the evils of 見思 unenlightened views and thoughts, but still have to be reborn. (3) 實報無障礙土 Realms of permanent reward and freedom, for those who have attained bodhisattva rank. (4) 常寂光土 Realm of eternal rest and light (i. e. wisdom) and of eternal spirit (dharmakāya), the abode of Buddhas; but in reality all the others are included in this, and are only separated for convenience, sake.

壁龕


壁龛

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bì kān
    bi4 kan1
pi k`an
    pi kan
 hekigan
    へきがん
niche (in a wall)
niche (in Western architecture)

外字

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 gaiji
    がいじ
(1) {comp} external character; user-defined character; character not included in the JIS character set; (2) (See 常用漢字,人名用漢字) kanji not included in the jōyō or jinmeiyō lists; (3) foreign letters (esp. of a Western language); foreign writing

外帯

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 gaitai
    がいたい
(1) (See 内帯・1) area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago; (2) (See 西南日本外帯) area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line

外灘


外滩

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wài tān
    wai4 tan1
wai t`an
    wai tan
 waitan
    ワイタン
the Bund, a waterfront promenade in central Shanghai, running along the western bank of the Huangpu River
(place-name) The Bund (Shanghai, China)

大幅

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dà fú
    da4 fu2
ta fu
 oohaba
    おおはば
large-format (picture, banner, photo etc); substantially; by a wide margin
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) big; large; drastic; substantial; (2) full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing); (surname) Oohaba

天馬


天马

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tiān mǎ
    tian1 ma3
t`ien ma
    tien ma
 fuma
    ふま
(mythology) celestial horse; fine horse; Ferghana horse; (Western mythology) Pegasus
flying horse; Pegasus; (surname) Fuma

妙土

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miào tǔ
    miao4 tu3
miao t`u
    miao tu
 myōdo
The wonderful land; a Buddha's reward-land; especially the Western Paradise of Amitābha.

妙賢


妙贤

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miào xián
    miao4 xian2
miao hsien
 Myōken
Subhadra, 善賢 A monk referred to in the 西域記 Records of Western Lands.

宗派

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zōng pài
    zong1 pai4
tsung p`ai
    tsung pai
 shuuha / shuha
    しゅうは
sect
(1) sect; denomination; (2) school (e.g. of poetry)
Sects (of Buddhism). In India, according to Chinese accounts, the two schools of Hīnayāna became divided into twentysects. Mahāyāna had two main schools, the Mādhyamika, ascribed to Nāgārjunaand Āryadeva about the second century A. D., and the Yogācārya, ascribed toAsaṅga and Vasubandhu in the fourth century A. D. In China thirteen sectswere founded: (1) 倶舍宗 Abhidharma or Kośa sect, representing Hīnayāna,based upon the Abhidharma-kosa-śāstra or 倶舍論. (2) 成實宗 Satyasiddhi sect, based on the 成實論 Satyasiddhi-śāstra,tr. by Kumārajīva; no sect corresponds to it in India; in China and Japan itbecame incorporated in the 三論宗. (3) 律宗 Vinaya or Discipline sect, basedon 十誦律, 四分律, 僧祗律, etc. (4) 三論宗 The three śāstra sect, based on theMādhyamika-śāstra 中觀論 of Nāgārjuna, theSata-śāstra 百論 of Āryadeva, and theDvādasa-nikāya-śāstra 十二門論 of Nāgārjuna; this schooldates back to the translation of the three śāstras by Kumārajīva in A. D. 409. (5) 涅槃宗 Nirvāṇasect, based upon the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra 涅槃經 tr. byDharmaraksa in 423; later incorporated in Tiantai, with which it had much incommon. (6) 地論宗 Daśabhūmikā sect, based on Vasubandhu's work on the tenstages of the bodhisattva's path to Buddhahood, tr. by Bodhiruci 508,absorbed by the Avataṃsaka school, infra. (7) 淨土宗 Pure-land or Sukhāvatīsect, founded in China by Bodhiruci; its doctrine was salvation throughfaith in Amitābha into the Western Paradise. (8) 禪宗 dhyāna, meditative or intuitional sect, attributed toBodhidharma about A. D. 527, but it existed before he came to China. (9) 攝論宗, based upon the 攝大乘論 Mahāyāna-saṃparigraha-śāstra byAsaṅga, tr. by Paramārtha in 563, subsequently absorbed by the Avataṃsakasect. (10) 天台宗 Tiantai, based on the 法華經 SaddharmapuṇḍarīkaSūtra, or the Lotus of the Good Law; it is aconsummation of the Mādhyamika tradition. (11) 華嚴宗 Avataṃsaka sect, basedon the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, or Gandha-vyūha 華嚴經 tr. in 418. (12) 法相宗 Dharmalakṣaṇa sect, established after thereturn of Xuanzang from India and his trans. of the important Yogācāryaworks. (13) 眞言宗 Mantra sect, A. D. 716. In Japan twelve sects are named:Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Kusha, Jōjitsu, Ritsu, Tendai, Shingon; these areknown as the ancient sects, the two last being styled mediaeval; therefollow the Zen and Jōdo; the remaining two are Shin and Nichiren; at presentthere are the Hossō, Kegon, Tendai, Shingon, Zen, Jōdo, Shin, and Nichirensects.

官話


官话

see styles
guān huà
    guan1 hua4
kuan hua
 kanwa
    かんわ
"officialese"; bureaucratic language; Mandarin
(1) (hist) Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty); (2) Mandarin (branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China)

寒鴉


寒鸦

see styles
hán yā
    han2 ya1
han ya
 kana
    かんあ
(bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
(See かんがらす) winter crow

尊攘

see styles
 sonjou / sonjo
    そんじょう
(hist) (abbreviation) (Bakumatsu-period slogan) (See 尊皇攘夷) revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians

居間


居间

see styles
jū jiān
    ju1 jian1
chü chien
 ima
    いま
positioned between (two parties); to mediate between
living room (Western style); sitting room

屯區


屯区

see styles
tún qū
    tun2 qu1
t`un ch`ü
    tun chü
Tun District – area of Taichung (in Taiwan) between the coastal (western) part of the city and the mountains to the east

川西

see styles
chuān xī
    chuan1 xi1
ch`uan hsi
    chuan hsi
 moraresu
    もられす
Western Sichuan
(surname) Moraresu

張敞


张敞

see styles
zhāng chǎng
    zhang1 chang3
chang ch`ang
    chang chang
Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty

張華


张华

see styles
zhāng huá
    zhang1 hua2
chang hua
Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician; Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank; other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention

彌陀


弥陀

see styles
mí tuó
    mi2 tuo2
mi t`o
    mi to
 Mida
Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Paradise; abbr. for 阿彌陀佛|阿弥陀佛; Mituo or Mito township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan
Amitābha, v. 阿.

征西

see styles
 seisei / sese
    せいせい
(noun/participle) (hist) western expedition; military campaign to the west

戎羯

see styles
róng jié
    rong2 jie2
jung chieh
ancient ethnic groups in northwestern China

戾龍


戾龙

see styles
lì lóng
    li4 long2
li lung
mythical evil serpent; evil dragon in Western mythology, cf Revelations 14:12

打口

see styles
dǎ kǒu
    da3 kou3
ta k`ou
    ta kou
(of CDs, videos etc) surplus (or "cut-out") stock from Western countries, sometimes marked with a notch in the disc or its case, sold cheaply in China (beginning in the 1990s), as well as Eastern Europe etc

播磨

see styles
bò mó
    bo4 mo2
po mo
 banma
    ばんま
(hist) Harima (former province located in the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture); (surname) Banma
upama, a resemblance, simile.

支那

see styles
zhī nà
    zhi1 na4
chih na
 shina
    しな
phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory
(sensitive word) (dated) (kana only) (often considered offensive post-WWII, esp. when written in kanji) (See 中国・1) China; (female given name) Shina
指那, 眞丹, 至那, 斯那, 振旦, 震旦, 眞那, 振丹, 脂難, 旃丹; 摩訶至那 Cina; Maha-cina. The name by which China is referred to in the laws of Manu (which assert that the Chinese were degenerate Kṣatriya), in the Mahābharata, and in Buddhist works. This name may have been derived from families ruling in western China under such titles as 晉 Chin at Fen-chou in Shansi 1106-376 B. C., 陳 Ch'en in Honan 1122-479 B. C., 秦 Ch'in in Shensi as early as the ninth century B. C., and to this latter dynasty the designation is generally attributed.

新劇

see styles
 shingeki
    しんげき
(See 旧劇・1) shingeki; new drama (movement); form of Japanese theater developed towards the end of the Meiji period inspired by modern Western theater

新軍


新军

see styles
xīn jun
    xin1 jun1
hsin chün
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)

暈繝

see styles
 ungen
    うんげん
    ugen
    うげん
method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

最西

see styles
 saisei / saise
    さいせい
(adj-no,n) westernmost

杞國


杞国

see styles
qǐ guó
    qi3 guo2
ch`i kuo
    chi kuo
the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence

林紓


林纾

see styles
lín shū
    lin2 shu1
lin shu
Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into Classical Chinese

根笹

see styles
 nezasa
    ねざさ
dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan); (surname) Nezasa

格物

see styles
gé wù
    ge2 wu4
ko wu
to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学[li3 xue2]; word for Western natural sciences during late Qing

格緻


格致

see styles
gé zhì
    ge2 zhi4
ko chih
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge; abbr. for 格物致知[ge2 wu4 zhi4 zhi1]; word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
See: 格致

格致

see styles
gé zhì
    ge2 zhi4
ko chih
 tadamune
    ただむね
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (abbr. for 格物致知[ge2 wu4 zhi4 zhi1]); word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
(personal name) Tadamune

横文

see styles
 oubun / obun
    おうぶん
horizontal (Western) writing

欧化

see styles
 ouka / oka
    おうか
(n,vs,vt,vi) Europeanization; Europeanisation; Westernization; Westernisation

欧風

see styles
 oufuu / ofu
    おうふう
(adj-no,n) European-style; Western; Occidental

正餐

see styles
zhèng cān
    zheng4 can1
cheng ts`an
    cheng tsan
 seisan / sesan
    せいさん
(regular) meal; full meal; main course
(Western-style) banquet; formal dinner

歸西


归西

see styles
guī xī
    gui1 xi1
kuei hsi
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)

毛唐

see styles
 ketou / keto
    けとう
(derogatory term) (abbreviation) (See 毛唐人) damn Westerner

沒る

see styles
 iru
    いる
(Godan verb with "ru" ending) (poetic term) to set beyond the Western horizon (i.e. the sun)

洋人

see styles
yáng rén
    yang2 ren2
yang jen
 hirohito
    ひろひと
foreigner; Westerner
(given name) Hirohito

洋傘

see styles
 yougasa; yousan / yogasa; yosan
    ようがさ; ようさん
(See 和傘) (Western-style) umbrella; parasol

洋剣

see styles
 youken / yoken
    ようけん
(See 洋刀・ようとう) Western sword (esp. sabre)

洋化

see styles
yáng huà
    yang2 hua4
yang hua
to Westernize

洋医

see styles
 youi / yoi
    ようい
(1) practitioner of Western medicine; (2) Western doctor

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