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There are 7 total results for your 台下 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

台下

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tái xià
    tai2 xia4
t`ai hsia
    tai hsia
 daika
    だいか
off the stage; in the audience
(n,n-suf) (honorific or respectful language) your honor (honour); his (or her) honor (honour); (place-name) Daishimo

相武台下

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 soubudaishita / sobudaishita
    そうぶだいした
(personal name) Soubudaishita

五輪台下段

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 gorindaigedan
    ごりんだいげだん
(place-name) Gorindaigedan

灯台下暗し

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 toudaimotokurashi / todaimotokurashi
    とうだいもとくらし
(expression) it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London

相武台下駅

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 soubudaishitaeki / sobudaishitaeki
    そうぶだいしたえき
(st) Soubudaishita Station

臺上一分鐘,臺下十年功


台上一分钟,台下十年功

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tái shàng yī fēn zhōng , tái xià shí nián gōng
    tai2 shang4 yi1 fen1 zhong1 , tai2 xia4 shi2 nian2 gong1
t`ai shang i fen chung , t`ai hsia shih nien kung
    tai shang i fen chung , tai hsia shih nien kung
ten years of practice for one minute on the stage (idiom)

Variations:
灯台下暗し
灯台もと暗し

see styles
 toudaimotokurashi / todaimotokurashi
    とうだいもとくらし
(expression) (proverb) it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London

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

This page contains 7 results for "台下" 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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