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欲樂 is the Chinese and Japanese title representing the Buddhist and Jainist joys of the five desires.
Kama comes from the Pali/Sanskrit काम. The meaning is “desire, wish, longing.”
In Jainism, it can include sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and longing.
However, the Buddhist context refers more to any desire, wish, passion, longing, the pleasure of the senses, desire for, longing to and after, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, enjoyment of love is particularly with or without the enjoyment of sexual, sensual and erotic desire, and is often used without sexual connotations.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your Kama search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
愛 爱 see styles |
ài ai4 ai rui るい |
More info & calligraphy: Love(n,n-suf) (1) (See 愛する) love; affection; care; (2) {Buddh} attachment; craving; desire; (3) {Christn} (See アガペー・1) agape; (4) (abbreviation) Ireland; (female given name) Rui kāma; rāga. Love, affection, desire; also used for tṛṣṇā, thirst, avidity, desire, one of the twelve nidānas. It is intp. as 貪 coveting, and 染著 defiling attachment; also defined as defiling love like that toward wife and children, and undefiling love like that toward one's teachers and elders. |
欲 see styles |
yù yu4 yü yoku よく |
to wish for; to desire; variant of 慾|欲[yu4] greed; craving; desire; avarice; wants; (surname) Yoku rājas, passion. Also kāma, desire, love. The Chinese word means to breathe after, aspire to, desire, and is also used as 慾 for lust, passion; it is inter alia intp. as 染愛塵 tainted with the dust (or dirt) of love, or lust. The three desires are for beauty, demeanour, and softness; the five are those of the five physical senses. |
カーマ see styles |
kaama / kama カーマ |
More info & calligraphy: Carma |
カマー see styles |
kamaa / kama カマー |
More info & calligraphy: Kamar |
窯 窑 see styles |
yáo yao2 yao kama かま |
kiln; oven; coal pit; cave dwelling; (coll.) brothel stove; furnace; kiln; (place-name) Kama |
蟇 蟆 see styles |
má ma2 ma hikigaeru ひきがえる hiki ひき gamagaeru がまがえる gama がま kama かま |
old variant of 蟆[ma2] (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) (kana only) toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus) |
釜 see styles |
fǔ fu3 fu kama かま |
kettle; cauldron iron pot; kettle; (surname) Kama |
嘉万 see styles |
kama かま |
(place-name) Kama |
愛經 爱经 see styles |
ài jīng ai4 jing1 ai ching |
Kama Sutra |
欲經 欲经 see styles |
yù jīng yu4 jing1 yü ching |
Kama Sutra |
蝦蟆 虾蟆 see styles |
há ma ha2 ma5 ha ma gama がま kama かま |
variant of 蛤蟆[ha2ma5] (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) (kana only) toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus) |
蝦蟇 see styles |
gamagaeru がまがえる gama がま kama かま |
(out-dated or obsolete kana usage) (kana only) toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus) |
迦摩 see styles |
jiā mó jia1 mo2 chia mo kama |
kāma, desire, love, wish. A hungry spirit. |
香蒲 see styles |
xiāng pú xiang1 pu2 hsiang p`u hsiang pu gama がま kama かま |
Typha orientalis; broadleaf cumbungi; bulrush; cattail (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) (kana only) common cattail (Typha latifolia); common bulrush; common reedmace |
カマ川 see styles |
kamagawa カマがわ |
(place-name) Kama (river) |
伏衆根 伏众根 see styles |
fú zhòng gēn fu2 zhong4 gen1 fu chung ken Fuku shu kon |
Kāma-śreṣṭha |
嘉麻市 see styles |
kamashi かまし |
(place-name) Kama (city) |
Variations: |
kama かま |
boiler |
カーマー see styles |
kaamaa / kama カーマー |
(personal name) Calmer |
劍摩舍帝 剑摩舍帝 see styles |
jiàn mó shè dì jian4 mo2 she4 di4 chien mo she ti kenmashatai |
A spirit or demon, ? Aniruddha, the unobstructed, the ungovernable, son of Kāma (Love, Lust). |
Variations: |
gama; kama(ok); gama がま; かま(ok); ガマ |
(kana only) common cattail (Typha latifolia); broadleaf cattail; common bulrush; great reedmace |
欲有見無明 欲有见无明 see styles |
yù yǒu jiàn wú míng yu4 you3 jian4 wu2 ming2 yü yu chien wu ming yoku u ken mumyō |
The unenlightened condition of desire; kāma-bhava-dṛṣṭi-avidyā are the four constituents which produce 漏 q.v. |
釜トンネル see styles |
kamatonneru かまトンネル |
(place-name) Kama Tunnel |
Variations: |
kama かま |
stove; furnace; kiln |
Variations: |
kaamasuutora; kaama suutora / kamasutora; kama sutora カーマスートラ; カーマ・スートラ |
Kama Sutra; Kamasutra |
Variations: |
hikigaeru(蟇, 蟇蛙, 蟾蜍); hiki(蟇, 蟾, 蟆); gamagaeru(蟇, 蝦蟇); gama(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆); kama(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆)(ok); hikigaeru; gamagaeru ひきがえる(蟇, 蟇蛙, 蟾蜍); ひき(蟇, 蟾, 蟆); がまがえる(蟇, 蝦蟇); がま(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆); かま(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆)(ok); ヒキガエル; ガマガエル |
(kana only) toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus) |
Variations: |
hikigaeru(蟇蛙, 蟇, 蟾蜍); hiki(蟇, 蟾, 蟆); gamagaeru(蟇, 蝦蟇); gama(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆); kama(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆)(ok); hikigaeru; gamagaeru ひきがえる(蟇蛙, 蟇, 蟾蜍); ひき(蟇, 蟾, 蟆); がまがえる(蟇, 蝦蟇); がま(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆); かま(蟇, 蝦蟇, 蝦蟆)(ok); ヒキガエル; ガマガエル |
(kana only) toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Kama - Desire Wish Longing | 欲樂 欲乐 | yokuraku | yù lè / yu4 le4 / yu le / yule | yü le / yüle |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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