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There are 11 total results for your the chosen one search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

選ばれし者

see styles
 erabareshimono
    えらばれしもの

More info & calligraphy:

The Chosen One
the chosen one; the chosen ones; the select few

抓周

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zhuā zhōu
    zhua1 zhou1
chua chou
custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child's inclinations, future career etc.)

揀師


拣师

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jiǎn shī
    jian3 shi1
chien shih
 kanshi
One chosen to be a teacher, but not yet fit for a full appointment.

本尊

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běn zūn
    ben3 zun1
pen tsun
 honzon
    ほんぞん
(Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity); the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar; (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身[fen1 shen1]); (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article; the real McCoy; the man himself; the woman herself; the original manifestation of something (not a spin-off or a clone)
(1) principal object of worship (at a Buddhist temple); principal image; (2) idol; icon; object of adoration; (3) (joc) (usu. as ご〜) the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter
? satyadevatā, 裟也地提嚩多. The original honoured one; the most honoured of all Buddhas; also the chief object of worship in a group; the specific Buddha, etc., being served.

孤家寡人

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gū jiā guǎ rén
    gu1 jia1 gua3 ren2
ku chia kua jen
one who is cut off from others (idiom); one who has chosen to follow a solitary path; (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)

択ばれし者

see styles
 erabareshimono
    えらばれしもの
the chosen one; the chosen ones; the select few

撰ばれし者

see styles
 erabareshimono
    えらばれしもの
the chosen one; the chosen ones; the select few

選ばれしもの

see styles
 erabareshimono
    えらばれしもの
the chosen one; the chosen ones; the select few

木に縁って魚を求む

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 kiniyotteuoomotomu
    きによってうおをもとむ
(expression) (idiom) (from Mencius) (See 木に縁りて魚を求む・きによりてうおをもとむ) to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree

木に縁りて魚を求む

see styles
 kiniyoriteuoomotomu
    きによりてうおをもとむ
(expression) (idiom) (from Mencius) to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree

Variations:
選ばれし者
選ばれしもの
撰ばれし者
択ばれし者

see styles
 erabareshimono
    えらばれしもの
the chosen one; the chosen ones; the select few

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

This page contains 11 results for "the chosen one" 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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