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There are 5 total results for your 八法 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

八法

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bā fǎ
    ba1 fa3
pa fa
 happō
eight methods of treatment (TCM)
The eight dharmas, things, or methods. There are three groups: (1) idem 八風 q.v. (2) 四大and 四微 q.v. (3) The eight essential things, i.e. 教 instruction, 理 doctrine, 智 knowledge or wisdom attained, 斷 cutting away of delusion, 行 practice of the religious life, 位 progressive status, 因 producing 果 the fruit of saintliness. Of these 教理行果 are known as the 四法.

八法拳

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bā fǎ quán
    ba1 fa3 quan2
pa fa ch`üan
    pa fa chüan
Ba Fa Quan "Eight Methods" - Martial Art

六合八法

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liù hé bā fǎ
    liu4 he2 ba1 fa3
liu ho pa fa
Liuhe Bafa - "Six Harmonies, Eight Methods" - Martial Art

正骨八法

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zhèng gǔ bā fǎ
    zheng4 gu3 ba1 fa3
cheng ku pa fa
the eight methods of bonesetting; Chinese osteopathy

永字八法

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 eijihappou / ejihappo
    えいじはっぽう
(yoji) (so named because all strokes are found in the character 永) Eight Principles of Yong; principles for writing the eight basic brush strokes in Chinese characters
This page contains 5 results for "八法" 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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