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Words Have Enormous Weight: One Word Worth Nine Caldrons
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
一言九鼎 is an ancient Chinese proverb used in modern times to talk of profound or powerful words.
The literal meaning is “one word [worth] nine [sacred] tripods.” The tripod is a highly-prized three-legged (sometimes four-legged) metal pot or kettle of ancient China. They are often made of bronze, and the Emperor would have large ones gilded in gold. See the image to the right for an example.
Nine
The number nine
九 is the number nine in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
九 is a strange selection for a wall scroll, so it's here mostly for reference. I guess it's OK if the number nine is important to you.
Because this character is rather simple (just two strokes), there is an anti-fraud way to write nine on bank documents. This version is shown to the right.
Facing the Wall Nine Years
面壁九年 is a Buddhist term that means “facing a wall for nine years.”
This refers to the Bodhidharma who stared at a wall in meditation at the Shaolin Temple (or in a cave) for nine years until reaching full enlightenment.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
禪 禅 see styles |
shàn shan4 shan yuzuri ゆずり |
More info & calligraphy: Zen / Chan / Meditation(out-dated kanji) (1) (Buddhist term) dhyana (profound meditation); (2) (abbreviation) Zen (Buddhism); (surname) Yuzuri To level a place for an altar, to sacrifice to the hills and fountains; to abdicate. Adopted by Buddhists for dhyāna, 禪 or 禪那, i.e. meditation, abstraction, trance. dhyāna is 'meditation, thought, reflection, especially profound and abstract religious contemplation'. M.W. It was intp. as 'getting rid of evil', etc., later as 靜慮 quiet meditation. It is a form of 定, but that word is more closely allied with samādhi, cf. 禪定. The term also connotes Buddhism and Buddhist things in general, but has special application to the 禪宗 q.v. It is one of the six pāramitās, cf. 波. There are numerous methods and subjects of meditation. The eighteen brahmalokas are divided into four dhyāna regions 'corresponding to certain frames of mind where individuals might be reborn in strict accordance with their spiritual state'. The first three are the first dhyāna, the second three the second dhyāna, the third three the third dhyāna, and the remaining nine the fourth dhyāna. See Eitel. According to Childers' Pali Dictionary, 'The four jhānas are four stages of mystic meditation, whereby the believer's mind is purged from all earthly emotions, and detached as it were from his body, which remains plunged in a profound trance.' Seated cross-legged, the practiser 'concentrates his mind upon a single thought. Gradually his soul becomes filled with a supernatural ecstasy and serenity', his mind still reasoning: this is the first jhāna. Concentrating his mind on the same subject, he frees it from reasoning, the ecstasy and serenity remaining, which is the second jhāna. Then he divests himself of ecstasy, reaching the third stage of serenity. Lastly, in the fourth stage the mind becomes indifferent to all emotions, being exalted above them and purified. There are differences in the Mahāyāna methods, but similarity of aim. |
少林寺 see styles |
shào lín sì shao4 lin2 si4 shao lin ssu shourinji / shorinji しょうりんじ |
More info & calligraphy: Shaolin Temple(place-name) Shaolin Temple (China); Shourinji The monastery at 少室 in 登封 Dengfeng xian, Henanfu, where Bodhidharma sat with his face to a wall for nine years. |
一言九鼎 see styles |
yī yán jiǔ dǐng yi1 yan2 jiu3 ding3 i yen chiu ting |
More info & calligraphy: Words Have Enormous Weight: One Word Worth Nine Caldrons |
面壁九年 see styles |
miàn bì jiǔ nián mian4 bi4 jiu3 nian2 mien pi chiu nien menpekikunen めんぺきくねん |
More info & calligraphy: Facing the Wall Nine Yearsnine years facing the wall |
転ばぬ先の杖 see styles |
korobanusakinotsue ころばぬさきのつえ |
More info & calligraphy: Have a Walking Stick at the Ready Before You Stumble |
九 see styles |
jiǔ jiu3 chiu chuu / chu チュー |
nine; 9 (numeric) (クー, キュー or チュー in mahjong) nine (chi: jiǔ); (surname) Maru Navan; nava. Nine. |
慢 see styles |
màn man4 man man |
slow māna. Pride, arrogance, self-conceit, looking down on others, supercilious, etc.; there are categories of seven and nine kinds of pride. |
玖 see styles |
jiǔ jiu3 chiu kokono ここの koko ここ ku く kyuu / kyu きゅう |
black jade; nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral) (numeric) nine |
結 结 see styles |
jié jie2 chieh ribon りぼん |
knot; sturdy; bond; to tie; to bind; to check out (of a hotel) (female given name) Ribon Knot, tie, bond; bound; settle, wind up; to form. The bond of transmigration. There are categories of three, five, and nine bonds; e.g. false views, the passions, etc. |
衣 see styles |
yì yi4 i koromo ころも |
to dress; to wear; to put on (clothes) (1) clothes; garment; (2) gown; robe; (3) coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing); (female given name) Matoi Clothes, especially a monk's robes which are of two kinds, the compulsory three garments of five, seven, or nine pieces; and the permissive clothing for the manual work of the monastery, etc. The 三衣 or three garments are (1) 安陀會衣 antarvāsas, an inner garment; the five-piece 袈裟 cassock; (2) 鬱多羅僧衣 uttarāsaṇga, outer garment, the seven-piece cassock; (3) 僧伽梨衣 saṁghāti, assembly cassock of from nine to twenty-five pieces. The permissive clothing is of ten kinds. |
輪 轮 see styles |
lún lun2 lun rin りん |
wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn (counter) counter for wheels and flowers; (female given name) Run cakra; wheel, disc, rotation, to revolve; v. 研. The three wheels are 惑業苦illusion, karma, suffering, in constant revolution. The five are earth, water, fire, wind, and space; the earth rests on revolving spheres of water, fire, wind, and space. The nine are seen on the tops of pagodas, cf. 九輪.; The two wheels of a cart compared by the Tiantai school to 定 (or to its Tiantai form 止觀) and 慧 meditation and wisdom; see 止觀 5. Also 食 food and 法 the doctrine, i. e. food physical and spiritual. |
食 see styles |
sì si4 ssu shoku(p); jiki(ok); shi(ok) しょく(P); じき(ok); し(ok) |
to feed (a person or animal) (1) food; foodstuff; (2) (しょく only) eating; appetite; (n,ctr) (3) (しょく only) meal; portion āhāra, 阿賀羅 food; to eat, feed. The rules are numerous, and seem to have changed; originally flesh food was not improper and vegetarianism was a later development; the early three rules in regard to 'clean' foods are that 'I shall not have seen the creature killed, nor heard it killed for me, nor have any doubt that it was killed for me'. The five 'unclean' foods are the above three, with creatures that have died a natural death; and creatures that have been killed by other creatures. The nine classes add to the five, creatures not killed for me; raw flesh, or creatures mauled by other creatures; things not seasonable or at the right time; things previously killed. The Laṅkavātāra Sutra and certain other sutras forbid all killed food. |
ＩＮ see styles |
in イン |
(1) (kana only) {sports} (See アウト・1) in (of a ball; in tennis, etc.); inside the line; (can act as adjective) (2) (kana only) (See アウト・3) in; inside; internal; interior; (expression) (3) (on (parking) entrance signs) enter here; enter; entrance; (parking) entry; (4) (kana only) {golf} (See アウト・5) back nine; (5) {sports} inside lane (track cycling, speed skating, etc.); (6) (abbreviation) (See チェックイン) check-in time |
一白 see styles |
ippaku いっぱく |
(1) (See 九星) first of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mercury and north); (2) white patch on one foot of a horse; horse with such a patch; (3) surface (landscape) that is white all over; pure white; (given name) Kazushiro |
一通 see styles |
ittsuu / ittsu いっつう |
(1) one copy (of a document); one letter; (2) (abbreviation) (See 一方通行・1) one-way traffic; (3) (abbreviation) {mahj} (sometimes written イッツー) (See 一気通貫・いっきつうかん・1) pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9); (male given name) Kazumichi |
七七 see styles |
qī qī qi1 qi1 ch`i ch`i chi chi nana なな |
(female given name) Nana The period of forty-nine days after death, when masses are said every seventh day till the seventh seventh day. |
七衆 七众 see styles |
qī zhòng qi1 zhong4 ch`i chung chi chung shichishu しちしゅ |
seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees) The seven classes of disciples:―(1)比丘 bhikṣu,monk;(2) bhikṣuṇī a female observer of all commandments; (3) 式叉摩那śikṣamāṇa, a novice, or observer of the six commandments; (4) 沙彌 śrāmaṇera, and (5) 沙彌尼 śrāmaṇerika, male and female observers of the minor commandments; (6) 優婆塞 upāsaka, male observers of the five commandments; and (7) 優婆夷upāsikā, female ditto. The first five have left home, the last two remain at home. Tiantai makes nine groups by dividing the last two into four, two remaining at home, two leaving home and keeping the eight commandments. Others make four groups, i.e. (1), (2), (6), and (7) of the above. Tiantai also has a four-group. |
七赤 see styles |
shichiseki しちせき |
(See 九星) seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west) |
三碧 see styles |
sanpeki さんぺき |
(See 九星) third of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and east) |
上座 see styles |
shàng zuò shang4 zuo4 shang tso kamiza; jouza / kamiza; joza かみざ; じょうざ |
seat of honor (n,vs,adj-no) chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table; (place-name) Jōza Sthavira; or Mahāsthavira. Old man, or elder; head monk, president, or abbot; the first Buddhist fathers; a title of Mahākāśyapa; also of monks of twenty to forty-nine years standing, as 中座 are from ten to nineteen and 下座 under ten. The 釋氏要覽 divides presiding elders into four classes, those presiding over monasteries, over assemblies of monks, over sects, and laymen presiding over feasts to monks. |
下品 see styles |
xià pǐn xia4 pin3 hsia p`in hsia pin gehin げひん |
(noun or adjectival noun) vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude; (place-name) Shimoshina The three lowest of the nine classes born in the Amitābha Pure Land, v. 無量壽經. These three lowest grades are (1) 下品上生 The highest of the three lowest classes who enter the Pure Land of Amitābha, i.e. those who have committed all sins except dishonouring the sūtras. If at the end of life the sinner clasps hands and says "Namo Amitābha", such a one will be born in His precious lake. (2) 下品中生 The middle class consists of those who have broken all the commandments, even stolen from monks and abused the law. If at death such a one hears of the great power of Amitābha, and assents with but a thought, he will be received into paradise. (3) 下品下生 The lowest class, because of their sins, should have fallen into the lowest gati, but by invoking the name of Amitābha, they can escape countless ages of reincarnation and suffering and on dying will behold a lotus flower like the sun, and, by the response of a single thought, will enter the Pure Land of Amitābha. |
中陰 中阴 see styles |
zhōng yīn zhong1 yin1 chung yin chuuin / chuin ちゅういん |
{Buddh} bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days); (place-name) Nakakage The intermediate existence between death and reincarnation, a stage varying from seven to forty-nine days, when the karma-body will certainly be reborn; v. 中有. |
九つ see styles |
kokonotsu ここのつ |
(numeric) nine |
九世 see styles |
jiǔ shì jiu3 shi4 chiu shih guse |
In past, present, and future worlds, each has its own past, present, and future, hence nine worlds or ages. |
九儀 九仪 see styles |
jiǔ yí jiu3 yi2 chiu i ku gi |
The nine "Indian" ways of showing respect, according to Xuanzang — asking about welfare; bowing the head; holding high the hands; bowing with folded hands; bending the knee; kneeling; hands and knees on the ground; elbows and knees ditto; the whole body prostrate. |
九入 see styles |
jiǔ rù jiu3 ru4 chiu ju ku nyū |
nine orifices |
九分 see styles |
kubu くぶ |
(n,adv) (1) nine parts; ninety percent; mostly; (2) nine percent |
九劫 see styles |
jiǔ jié jiu3 jie2 chiu chieh ku kō |
The nine kalpas; though Śākyamuni and Maitreya started together, the zeal of the first enabled him to become Buddha nine kalpas sooner; see 大賓積經 111. |
九卿 see styles |
jiǔ qīng jiu3 qing1 chiu ch`ing chiu ching kyuukei / kyuke きゅうけい |
the Nine Ministers (in imperial China) (1) (hist) nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government); (2) (hist) (See 公卿・1) high-ranking court noble; senior court official; kugyō |
九厄 see styles |
jiǔ è jiu3 e4 chiu o ku yaku |
nine pitfalls |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Words Have Enormous Weight: One Word Worth Nine Caldrons | 一言九鼎 | yī yán jiǔ dǐng yi1 yan2 jiu3 ding3 yi yan jiu ding yiyanjiuding | i yen chiu ting iyenchiuting |
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| Nine | 九 / 玖 | kyuu / kyu | jiǔ / jiu3 / jiu | chiu |
| Facing the Wall Nine Years | 面壁九年 | menpeki kyunen menpekikyunen | miàn bì jiǔ nián mian4 bi4 jiu3 nian2 mian bi jiu nian mianbijiunian | mien pi chiu nien mienpichiunien |
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