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There are 31 total results for your everyday life search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

日常生活

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 nichijouseikatsu / nichijosekatsu
    にちじょうせいかつ

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Everyday Life
everyday life; daily life

世話

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 sewa
    せわ
(noun, transitive verb) (1) care; looking after; help; assistance; aid; (2) trouble; bother; (noun, transitive verb) (3) good offices; recommendation; introduction; (4) everyday life; everyday affairs; everyday language; (5) (abbreviation) (See 世話物) sewamono (Edo-period drama about contemporary life)

俗世

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sú shì
    su2 shi4
su shih
 zokuse; zokusei / zokuse; zokuse
    ぞくせ; ぞくせい
the mundane world; the world of mortals
this world; everyday world; earthly existence; mundane life
mundane world

塵埃


尘埃

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chén āi
    chen2 ai1
ch`en ai
    chen ai
 jinai; chirihokori
    じんあい; ちりほこり
dust
(1) dust; dirt; (2) (じんあい only) dreary world; petty affairs of everyday life
dust (mote)

家常

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jiā cháng
    jia1 chang2
chia ch`ang
    chia chang
 kajou / kajo
    かじょう
the daily life of a family
everyday things; (surname) Ietsune
ordinary commonplace

民画

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 minga
    みんが
picture depicting everyday life; folk art

起居

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qǐ jū
    qi3 ju1
ch`i chü
    chi chü
 kikyo
    ききょ
everyday life; regular pattern of life
(n,vs,vi) (1) one's daily life; (2) condition; well-being; state of one's health; (3) (orig. meaning) standing and sitting; movements

俗世間

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 zokuseken
    ぞくせけん
(1) this world; earthly world; secular society; (2) ordinary world; everyday life; workaday world

実生活

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 jisseikatsu / jissekatsu
    じっせいかつ
real life; actual life; everyday life

日用事

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rì yòng shì
    ri4 yong4 shi4
jih yung shih
 nichiyū no ji
affairs of everyday life

生活音

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 seikatsuon / sekatsuon
    せいかつおん
daily life noise; household noises; noise that arises at home from everyday occurrences

一般生活

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 ippanseikatsu / ippansekatsu
    いっぱんせいかつ
everyday life

俗談平話

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 zokudanheiwa / zokudanhewa
    ぞくだんへいわ
(yoji) conversation on worldly affairs; chat about everyday life (business)

命の洗濯

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 inochinosentaku
    いのちのせんたく
(exp,n) casting off the drudgery of everyday life and doing as one pleases; kicking back

家常茶飯

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 kajousahan / kajosahan
    かじょうさはん
(yoji) everyday occurrence; commonplace of life; nothing out of the ordinary

尋常茶飯

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 jinjousahan / jinjosahan
    じんじょうさはん
(n,adj-na,adj-no) everyday occurrence; commonplace of life; nothing out of the ordinary

油鹽醬醋


油盐酱醋

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yóu yán jiàng cù
    you2 yan2 jiang4 cu4
yu yen chiang ts`u
    yu yen chiang tsu
(lit.) oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar; (fig.) the trivia of everyday life

浮世草子

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 ukiyozoushi / ukiyozoshi
    うきよぞうし
(Edo-period variety of) realistic literature; popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period

浮世草紙

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 ukiyozoushi / ukiyozoshi
    うきよぞうし
(Edo-period variety of) realistic literature; popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period

生活文化

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 seikatsubunka / sekatsubunka
    せいかつぶんか
culture of everyday life

生活雑貨

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 seikatsuzakka / sekatsuzakka
    せいかつざっか
daily necessities; goods for everyday life

生活騒音

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 seikatsusouon / sekatsusoon
    せいかつそうおん
daily life noise; (excessive) noise that arises at home from everyday occurrences

起居作息

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qǐ jū zuò xī
    qi3 ju1 zuo4 xi1
ch`i chü tso hsi
    chi chü tso hsi
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom); fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life

身の回り

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 minomawari
    みのまわり
(exp,n) one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities

身の廻り

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 minomawari
    みのまわり
(exp,n) one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities

洛中洛外図

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 rakuchuurakugaizu / rakuchurakugaizu
    らくちゅうらくがいず
(hist) views in and around Kyoto (style of folding screen depicting the scenery and scenes of everyday life in Kyoto; late Muromachi period to the Edo period)

身のまわり

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 minomawari
    みのまわり
(exp,n) one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities

Variations:
浮世草子
浮世草紙

see styles
 ukiyozoushi / ukiyozoshi
    うきよぞうし
(hist) ukiyo-zōshi; Edo-period genre of literature depicting everyday life of the merchant class

Variations:
身の回り(P)
身のまわり
身の廻り

see styles
 minomawari
    みのまわり
(exp,n) one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities

Variations:
身の回り(P)
身のまわり
身の廻り(rK)

see styles
 minomawari
    みのまわり
(exp,n,adj-no) one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities

Variations:
身の回り(P)
身のまわり
身の周り
身の廻り(rK)

see styles
 minomawari
    みのまわり
(exp,n,adj-no) one's personal belongings; one's vicinity; one's daily life; everyday necessities

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

This page contains 31 results for "everyday life" 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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