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Bond
This Kanji represents a bond, as in the bond between mother and daughter, father and son, family ties, or a family bond.
絆 is the kind of character that says, no matter what happens (difficult times), we have this bond that cannot be broken.
If you go to the Japanese dictionary, the definition is the bonds (between people), (emotional) ties, relationship, connection, link, tether, or fetters.
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This Kanji is best if your audience is Japanese. While this is also a Chinese character, it has a completely different meaning in Chinese (it means to hinder or stumble in Chinese).
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a very rare character in Korean Hanja but does mean bond in Korean (used in Korean words for certain kinds of glue and sticking plaster).
Family Bond / Family Ties
qīn yuán
親緣 is a Chinese word that means affinity, family relationship, or consanguinity.
This speaks of the family bonds we have with others that share the same blood or ancestors.
Family Bond / Family Ties
ruien
類縁 is a Japanese word that means affinity or family relationship.
This is about the bond shared by blood within a family or those from the same ancestor.
The Mysterious Bond Between People
The invisible force that brings people together forever
緣 represents the fate that brings and bonds people together.
緣 is a complicated single character. It can mean a lot of different things depending on how you read it.
In Japanese, it can mean fate, destiny, a mysterious force that binds two people together, a relationship between two people, bond, link, connection, family ties, affinity, opportunity, or chance (to meet someone and start a relationship). It can also mean “someone to rely on,” relative, reminder, memento, or the female given name, Yori.
It's the same in Chinese, where it's defined as cause, reason, karma, fate, or predestined affinity.
In the Buddhist context, it's Pratyaya. This is the concept of indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes. It's when something happens (meeting someone) by circumstance or a contributing environment. Instead of a direct cause or act, it is a conditioning cause without direct input or action by the involved people.
Occasionally, this character is used in a facetious way to say hem, seam, or edge of clothing. In this case, it's the seam that brings or holds the clothing together.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
絆 绊 see styles |
bàn ban4 pan rian りあん |
More info & calligraphy: Bond(1) bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; connection; link; (2) tether; fetters; (female given name) Rian |
如來 如来 see styles |
rú lái ru2 lai2 ju lai nyorai にょらい |
More info & calligraphy: Tathagata(out-dated kanji) Tathagata; perfected one (suffix of high-ranking Buddhist deities) tathāgata, 多陀阿伽陀 q. v.; 怛他揭多 defined as he who comes as do all other Buddhas; or as he who took the 眞如 zhenru or absolute way of cause and effect, and attained to perfect wisdom; or as the absolute come; one of the highest titles of a Buddha. It is the Buddha in his nirmāṇakāya, i. e. his 'transformation' or corporeal manifestation descended on earth. The two kinds of Tathāgata are (1) 在纏 the Tathāgata in bonds, i. e. limited and subject to the delusions and sufferings of life, and (2) 出纏 unlimited and free from them. There are numerous sutras and śāstras bearing this title of 如來 rulai. |
枷 see styles |
jiā jia1 chia kase かせ |
cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China) (1) shackles; fetters; irons; handcuffs; restraint; constraint; (2) bonds (e.g. family); ties; binding relationship; binding relationships; encumbrance |
紲 绁 see styles |
xiè xie4 hsieh setsu せつ |
to tie; to bind; to hold on a leash; rope; cord (1) bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; connection; link; (2) tether; fetters; (given name) Setsu |
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. |
縛 缚 see styles |
fù fu4 fu baku ばく |
to bind; to tie; Taiwan pr. [fu2] (See 縛につく) tying up; restraint; restriction; arrest bandha. Tie, attachment, bind, bond, another name for kleśa-afflictions, the passions, etc., which bind men; the 'three bonds' are 貪瞋痴 desire, resentment, stupidity; translit. pa, ba, va; cf. 跋, 婆, 飯. |
纏 缠 see styles |
chán chan2 ch`an chan matome まとめ |
to wind around; to wrap round; to coil; tangle; to involve; to bother; to annoy (given name) Matome To bind with cords; bonds; another name for 煩惱 the passions and delusions, etc. |
肽 see styles |
tài tai4 t`ai tai |
peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH) |
三德 see styles |
sān dé san1 de2 san te santoku |
The three virtues or powers, of which three groups are given below. (1) (a) 法身德 The virtue or potency of the Buddha's eternal, spiritual body, the dharmakāya; (b) 般若德 of his prājñā, or wisdom, knowing all things in their reality; (c) 解脫德 of his freedom from all bonds and his sovereign Iiberty. Each of these has the four qualities of 常, 樂我, 淨eternity, joy, personality, and purity; v. 漫涅槃經 (2) (a) 智德 The potency of his perfect knowledge; (b) 斷德 of his cutting off all illusion and perfecting of supreme nirvāṇa; the above two are 自利 for his own advantage; (c) 恩德 of his universal grace and salvation, which 利他 bestows the benefits he has acquired on others. (3) (a) 因圓德 The perfection of his causative or karmic works during his three great kalpas of preparation; (b) 果圓德 the perfection of the fruit, or results in his own character and wisdom; (c) 恩圓德 the perfection of his grace in the salvation of others. |
三惑 see styles |
sān huò san1 huo4 san huo sanwaku; sannaku さんわく; さんなく |
{Buddh} three mental disturbances A Tiantai classification of the three delusions, also styled 三煩惱; 三漏; 三垢; 三結; trials or temptations, leakages, uncleannesses, and bonds. The first of the following three is common to all disciples, the two last to bodhisattvas. They arise from (a) 見, 思, 惑 things seen and thought, i.e. illusions from imperfect perception, with temptation to love, hate, etc.; to be rid of these false views and temptations is the discipline and nirvāṇa of ascetic or Hīnayāna Buddhists. Mahāyāna proceeds further in and by its bodhisattva aims, which produce their own difficulties, i.e. (b) 塵沙惑 illusion and temptation through the immense variety of duties in saving men; and (c) 無明惑 illusions and temptations that arise from failure philosophically to understand things in their reality. |
三斷 三断 see styles |
sān duàn san1 duan4 san tuan sandan |
The three cuttings off or excisions (of 惑 beguiling delusions, or perplexities). (1) (a) 見所斷 to cut off delusions of view, of which Hīnayāna has eighty-eight kinds; (b) 修所斷in practice, eighty-one kinds; (c) 非所斷nothing left to cut off, perfect. v. 倶舍論 2. (2) (a) 自性斷 to cut off the nature or root (of delusion); (b) 緣縛斷 to cut off the external bonds, or objective causes (of delusions); (c) 不生斷 (delusion) no longer arising, therefore nothing produced to cut off. The third stage in both groups is that of an arhat. |
三結 三结 see styles |
sān jié san1 jie2 san chieh miyui みゆい |
(female given name) Miyui The three ties: (a) 見結 , the tie of false views, e.g. of a permanent ego; (b) 戒取結 of discipline; (c) 疑結 of doubt. The three are also parts of見惑 used for it. |
三綱 三纲 see styles |
sān gāng san1 gang1 san kang sangou / sango さんごう |
{Buddh} three monastic positions with management roles at a temple; (given name) Sankou The three bonds, i.e. directors of a monastery: (a) 上座 sthavira, elder, president; (b) 寺主vihārasvāmin, v. 毘 the abbot who directs the temporal affairs; (c) 維那 karmadāna, v. 羯 who directs the monks. Another meaning: (a) 上座; (b) 維那; (c) 典座 vihārapāla, v. 毘director of worship. The three vary in different countries. |
三縛 三缚 see styles |
sān fú san1 fu2 san fu sanbaku |
The three bonds— desire, anger, stupidity; idem 三毒. |
九結 九结 see styles |
jiǔ jié jiu3 jie2 chiu chieh kyūketsu |
The nine bonds that bind men to mortality: love, hate, pride, ignorance, (wrong)views, possessions (or grasping), doubt, envy, meanness (or selfishness). They are the 六隨眠 plus grasping, envy, and meanness. |
二如 see styles |
èr rú er4 ru2 erh ju ninyo |
There are various definitions of the two aspects of the 眞如 bhūtatathatā. (1) (a) 不變眞如 The changeless essence or substance, e.g. the sea; (b) 隨緣眞如 its conditioned or ever-changing forms, as in the phenomenal world, e.g. the waves. (2) (a) 離言眞如 The inexpressible absolute, only mentally conceivable; (6) 依言眞如 aspects of it expressible in words, its ideal reflex. (3) (a) 空眞如 The absolute as the void, e.g. as space, the sky, a clear mirror; (b) 不空眞如 the absolute in manifestation, or phenomenal, e. g. images in the mirror: the womb of the universe in which are all potentialities. (4) (a) 在纏眞如The Buddha-nature in bonds, i.e. all beings in suffering; (b) 出纏真如the Buddha-nature set free by the manifestation of the Buddha and bodhisattvas. (5) (a) 有垢眞如The Buddha-nature defiled, as in unenlightened man, etc., e.g. the water-lily with its roots in the mud; (b) 無垢眞如 the pure Buddha-nature, purifed or bright as the full moon. (6) 安立 and 非安立眞如 similar to the first definition given above. |
五下 see styles |
wǔ xià wu3 xia4 wu hsia goshita ごした |
(surname) Goshita five lower-level (bonds) |
五果 see styles |
wǔ guǒ wu3 guo3 wu kuo goka ごか |
(1) five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); (2) (Buddhist term) five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; (3) (Buddhist term) five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g. I. (1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds; (2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness; (3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives; (4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity: (5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit. II. Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. III. Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods. |
五結 五结 see styles |
wǔ jié wu3 jie2 wu chieh goketsu |
Wujie or Wuchieh Township in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 Xian4], Taiwan The five bonds to mortality: 貧 desire, 恚 hata, 慢 pride, 嫉 envy, 慳 grudging. |
共結 共结 see styles |
gòng jié gong4 jie2 kung chieh guketsu |
shared bonds |
募入 see styles |
bonyuu / bonyu ぼにゅう |
allotment (of shares, bonds, etc.); flotation; subscription |
十纒 see styles |
shí chán shi2 chan2 shih ch`an shih chan jutten |
The ten bonds that bind men to mortality — to be shameless, unblushing, envious, mean, regretful, torpid, busy, absorbed, angry, secretive (of sin). |
取蘊 取蕴 see styles |
qǔ yùn qu3 yun4 ch`ü yün chü yün shuun |
The skandhas which give rise to grasping or desire, which in turn produces the skandhas. 見取 v. 見.; The five tenacious bonds, or skandhas, attaching to mortality. |
四結 四结 see styles |
sì jié si4 jie2 ssu chieh shiketsu |
The four knots, or bonds, saṃyojana, which hinder free development; they are likened to the 四翳 q. v. four things that becloud, i. e. rain clouds, resembling desire; dust-storms, hate; smoke, ignorance; and asuras, gain. |
四維 四维 see styles |
sì wéi si4 wei2 ssu wei shii; shiyui(ok) / shi; shiyui(ok) しい; しゆい(ok) |
the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor; see 禮義廉恥|礼义廉耻[li3 yi4 lian2 chi3]; the four directions; the four limbs (Chinese medicine); four-dimensional (1) (See 四隅・2) four ordinal directions; (2) (しい only) (from Guanzi) four cardinal principles of the state (propriety, justice, integrity, sense of shame); (surname) Yotsui The four half points of the compass, N. E., N. W., S. E., S. W. |
四縛 四缚 see styles |
sì fú si4 fu2 ssu fu shibaku |
The four bandhana, or bonds are (1) desire, resentment, heretical morality, egoism; or (2) desire, possession (or existence), ignorance, and unenlightened views. |
国債 see styles |
kokusai こくさい |
national debt; national securities; government bonds; government securities |
在纏 在缠 see styles |
zài chán zai4 chan2 tsai ch`an tsai chan zaiten |
In bonds, i. e. the '在眞如 the bhūtatathatā in limitations, e. g. relative, v. 起信論 Awakening of Faith. |
垢結 垢结 see styles |
gòu jié gou4 jie2 kou chieh kuketsu |
The bond of the defiling, i.e. the material, and of reincarnation; illusion. |
多肽 see styles |
duō tài duo1 tai4 to t`ai to tai |
polypeptide, chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein |
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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 | |
| Bond | 絆 绊 | kizuna | bàn / ban4 / ban | pan |
| Family Bond Family Ties | 親緣 亲缘 | qīn yuán / qin1 yuan2 / qin yuan / qinyuan | ch`in yüan / chinyüan / chin yüan | |
| Family Bond Family Ties | 類縁 | ruien | ||
| The Mysterious Bond Between People | 緣 / 縁 缘 | en | yuán / yuan2 / yuan | yüan |
| 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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