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There are 14 total results for your longevity long life search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


寿

see styles
shòu
    shou4
shou
 hisashi
    ひさし

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Longevity / Long Life
long life; old age; age; life; birthday; funerary
(out-dated kanji) (1) congratulations; felicitations; best wishes; (2) longevity; long life; (given name) Hisashi
Long life, longevity, age, v. 耆婆 jīva.

寿

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 ju
    じゅ

More info & calligraphy:

Longevity / Long Life
(1) age; years; (2) longevity; long life; (3) congratulation; celebration; congratulatory gift; (personal name) Yasushi

長壽


长寿

see styles
cháng shòu
    chang2 shou4
ch`ang shou
    chang shou
 nagatoshi
    ながとし

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Longevity / Long Life
longevity; long-lived
(personal name) Nagatoshi
Long life.

保命

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bǎo mìng
    bao3 ming4
pao ming
 houmei / home
    ほうめい
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
preserving one's life; longevity; long life

椿寿

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 chinju
    ちんじゅ
(archaism) longevity; long life

永寿

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 eiju / eju
    えいじゅ
long life; longevity; (given name) Nagatoshi

生玉

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 ikutama
    いくたま
(rare) longevity stone (gemstone that gives its bearer long life); (surname) Ikudama

遐齡


遐龄

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xiá líng
    xia2 ling2
hsia ling
advanced age; longevity; long life

長寿

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 chouju / choju
    ちょうじゅ
(noun - becomes adjective with の) long life; longevity; (given name) Nagahisa

長生


长生

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cháng shēng
    chang2 sheng1
ch`ang sheng
    chang sheng
 chousei / chose
    ちょうせい
long life
(n,vs,vi) longevity; (given name) Yoshio
Long or eternal life (in Paradise), 長生不死, 長生不老 long life without death, or growing old, immortality.

長生き

see styles
 nagaiki
    ながいき
(n,vs,vi) longevity; long life

延命息災

see styles
 enmeisokusai; enmyousokusai / enmesokusai; enmyosokusai
    えんめいそくさい; えんみょうそくさい
(rare) (yoji) (See 息災延命) health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster

息災延命

see styles
 sokusaienmei / sokusaienme
    そくさいえんめい
(yoji) health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster

Variations:
寿(P)
壽(oK)

see styles
 kotobuki
    ことぶき
(1) (written on envelopes containing monetary gifts, etc.) congratulations; felicitations; best wishes; (2) longevity; long life

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

This page contains 14 results for "longevity long 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

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).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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