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There are 9 total results for your cross the river search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


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    ji4
chi
 wataru
    わたる
to cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help
(personal name) Wataru
To cross a stream; aid; cause, bring about.

度河

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dù hé
    du4 he2
tu ho
 doka
cross a river

杯度

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bēi dù
    bei1 du4
pei tu
 Haido
Beidu, a fifth-century Buddhist monk said to be able to cross a river in a cup or bowl, hence his name.

渡河

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dù hé
    du4 he2
tu ho
 toka
    とか
to cross a river
(n,vs,vi) crossing a river; (surname) Watakawa
cross the river

競渡


竞渡

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jìng dù
    jing4 du4
ching tu
rowing competition; boat race; swimming competition (e.g. to cross river or lake)

六道銭

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 rokudousen / rokudosen
    ろくどうせん
(See 三途の川) six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)

同舟共濟


同舟共济

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tóng zhōu gòng jì
    tong2 zhou1 gong4 ji4
t`ung chou kung chi
    tung chou kung chi
cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests; obliged to collaborate towards common goals

川を越える

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 kawaokoeru
    かわをこえる
(exp,v1) to cross a river

クロスリバー湖

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 kurosuribaako / kurosuribako
    クロスリバーこ
(place-name) Cross River Reservoir

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

This page contains 9 results for "cross the river" 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).



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