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(武士)(武)(士)(の)(一言)(一)(言)(金鉄)(金)(鉄)(如し)(如)(し)
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| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
武 see styles |
wǔ wu3 wu bu ぶ |
More info & calligraphy: Warrior Essence / Warrior Spirit / Martial(1) (archaism) the art of war; martial arts; military arts; (2) military force; the sword; (3) valor; bravery; (4) military officer; military man; (surname) Tokubu martial |
武士 see styles |
wǔ shì wu3 shi4 wu shih mononofu もののふ |
More info & calligraphy: Warrior(poetic term) warrior; soldier; samurai; (place-name) Mononofu |
士 see styles |
shì shi4 shih shi し |
member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker (1) man (esp. one who is well-respected); (2) (See 侍・1) samurai; (suffix noun) (3) person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member; (personal name) Mamoru A gentleman, scholar, officer. |
の see styles |
no の |
(particle) (1) (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之) (See 乃) indicates possessive; (particle) (2) nominalizes verbs and adjectives; (particle) (3) (See が・1) substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (particle) (4) (often ん) (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (particle) (5) (feminine speech) (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (particle) (6) (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question |
一 see styles |
yī yi1 i ii / i イー |
More info & calligraphy: One(numeric) one (chi: yī); (female given name) Moto eka. One, unity, monad, once, the same; immediately on (seeing, hearing, etc.). |
一言 see styles |
yī yán yi1 yan2 i yen hitokoto ひとこと |
one sentence; brief remark (noun/participle) single word; a few words; brief comment; (place-name, surname) Hitokoto one word |
言 see styles |
yán yan2 yen gen(p); koto げん(P); こと |
words; speech; to say; to talk word; remark; statement; (personal name) Sachiyo Words, speech; to speak. |
金 see styles |
jīn jin1 chin kin きん |
More info & calligraphy: Gold / Metal(1) gold (metal); (2) (See 金色) gold (color); (3) gold (medal); first place (prize); (noun - becomes adjective with の) (4) something of great value; something golden (e.g. silence); (5) money; gold coin; (6) (written before an amount of money) sum (of money); (7) (abbreviation) (See 金曜) Friday; (n,ctr) (8) karat (measure of purity of gold); carat; (9) (See 五行・1) metal (fourth phase of Wu Xing); (10) (hist) Jin dynasty (of China; 1115-1234); Chin dynasty; Jurchen dynasty; (11) (abbreviation) {shogi} (See 金将) gold general; (12) (abbreviation) (colloquialism) (See 金玉) testicles; (surname) Kimu; Kim hiraṇya, 伊爛拏 which means cold, any precious metal, semen, etc.; or 蘇伐刺 suvarṇa, which means "of a good or beautiful colour", "golden", "yellow", "gold", "a gold coin", etc. The Chinese means metal, gold, money. |
金鉄 see styles |
kintetsu きんてつ |
gold and iron; firmness; adamancy |
鉄 see styles |
zhì zhi4 chih magane まがね |
old variant of 紩[zhi4] (1) iron (Fe); (adj-no,n) (2) strong and hard (as iron); (n,n-suf,n-pref) (3) (abbreviation) railway; (n,n-pref) (4) (colloquialism) railway enthusiast; iron; (out-dated kanji) (1) money; (2) metal; (given name) Magane |
如 see styles |
rú ru2 ju nyo にょ |
as; as if; such as {Buddh} (See 真如) tathata (the ultimate nature of all things); (female given name) Yuki tathā 多陀; 但他 (or 怛他), so, thus, in such manner, like, as. It is used in the sense of the absolute, the 空 śūnya, which is 諸佛之實相 the reality of all Buddhas; hence 如 ru is 賃相 the undifferentiated whole of things, the ultimate reality; it is 諸法之性 the nature of all things, hence it connotes 法性 faxing which is 眞實之際極 the ultimate of reality, or the absolute, and therefore connotes 實際 ultimate reality. The ultimate nature of all things being 如 ru, the one undivided same, it also connotes 理 li, the principle or theory behind all things, and this 理 li universal law, being the 眞實 truth or ultimate reality; 如 ru is termed 眞如 bhūtatathatā, the real so, or suchness, or reality, the ultimate or the all, i. e. the 一如 yiru. In regard to 如 ju as 理 li the Prajñā-pāramitā puṇḍarīka makes it the 中 zhong, neither matter nor nothingness. It is also used in the ordinary sense of so, like, as (cf yathā). |
如し see styles |
gotoshi ごとし |
(auxiliary verb) like; as if; the same as |
し see styles |
shi シ |
(1) {music} ti (7th note of a major scale in movable-do solfège) (ita:); si; (2) {music} B (note in the fixed-do system) |
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.
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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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