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Listen to Both Sides and be Enlightened, Listen to One Side and be in the Dark
jiān tīng zé míng, piān tīng zé àn
兼聽則明偏聽則暗 is an ancient Chinese proverb about getting all the information from all sides so that you truly understand a situation.
Wei Zheng
A man named Wei Zheng lived between 580-643 AD. He was a noble and wise historian and minister in the court of the early Tang Dynasty. The emperor once asked him, “What should an emperor do to understand the real-world situation, and what makes an emperor out-of-touch with reality?”
Wei Zheng replied, “Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; listen to only one side and you will be left in the dark.”
Then Wei Zheng went on to cite examples of leaders in history that were victorious after heeding both sides of the story, and other leaders that met their doom because they believed one-sided stories which often came from flattering lips.
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Sanbo
sanbou / sanpou / mitsukata
三方 is San Bo or Sanbo which literally means three sides but in Japanese, refers to a small offering stand.
It can also be the Japanese surname Mitsukata.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
三方 see styles |
mitsukata みつかた |
More info & calligraphy: Sanbo |
印度 see styles |
yìn dù yin4 du4 yin tu indo いんど |
More info & calligraphy: India(ateji / phonetic) (kana only) India; (place-name) India 印特伽; 身毒; 賢豆; 天竺 Indu (meaning 'moon' in Sanskrit), Hindu, Sindhu; see also 信度 and 閻浮 India in general. In the Tang dynasty its territory is described as extending over 90, 000 li in circuit, being bounded on three sides by the sea; north it rested on the Snow mountains 雪山, i. e. Himālayas; wide at the north, narrowing to the south, shaped like a half-moon; it contained over seventy kingdoms, was extremely hot, well watered and damp; from the centre eastwards to 震旦 China was 58, 000 li; and the same distance southwards to 金地國, westwards to 阿拘遮國, and northwards to 小香山阿耨達. |
地獄 地狱 see styles |
dì yù di4 yu4 ti yü jigoku じごく |
More info & calligraphy: Hell(1) {Buddh} hell realm; Naraka; (2) {Christn} Hell; (3) hell; misery; nightmare; inferno; (4) place where a volcano or hot springs constantly spew smoke or steam; (place-name) Jigoku naraka, 捺落迦 (or 那落迦) ; niraya 泥犂; explained by 不樂 joyless; 可厭 disgusting, hateful; 苦具, 苦器 means of suffering; if 地獄 earth-prison; 冥府 the shades, or departments of darkness. Earth-prison is generally intp. as hell or the hells; it may also be termed purgatory; one of the six gati or ways of transmigration. The hells are divided into three classes: I. Central, or radical, 根本地獄 consisting of (1) The eight hot hells. These were the original hells of primitive Buddhism, and are supposed to be located umder the southern continent Jambudvīpa 瞻部州, 500 yojanas below the surface. (a) 等活 or 更活 Saṃjīva, rebirth, where after many kinds of suffering a cold wind blows over the soul and returns it to this life as it was before, hence the name 等活. (b) 黑繩 Kaslasūtra, where the sufferer is bound with black chains and chopped or sawn asunder. (c) 線合; 衆合; 堆壓 Saṃghāta, where are multitudes of implements of torture, or the falling of mountains upon the sufferer. (d) 號呌; 呼呼; 叫喚 Raurava, hell of wailing. (e) 大呌; 大號呌; 大呼 Mahāraurava, hell of great wailing. (f) 炎熱; 燒炙 Tapana, hell of fames and burning. (g) 大熱; 大燒炙; 大炎熱 Pratāpana, hell of molten lead. (h) 無間; 河鼻旨; 阿惟越致; 阿毗至; 阿鼻; 阿毗 Avīci, unintermitted suffering, where sinners die and are reborn to suffer without interval. (2) The eight cold hells 八寒地獄. (a) 頞浮陀地獄 Arbuda, where the cold causes blisters. (b) 尼刺部陀 Nirarbuda, colder still causing the blisters to burst. (c) 頞哳吒; 阿吒吒 Atata, where this is the only possible sound from frozen lips. (d) 臛臛婆; 阿波波 Hahava or Apapa, where it is so cold that only this sound can be uttered. (e) 虎虎婆 Hāhādhara or Huhuva, where only this sound can be uttered. (f) 嗢鉢羅; 鬱鉢羅 (or 優鉢羅) Utpala, or 尼羅鳥 (or 漚) 鉢羅 Nīlotpala, where the skin is frozen like blue lotus buds. (g) 鉢特摩 Padma, where the skin is frozen and bursts open like red lotus buds. (h) 摩訶鉢特摩 Mahāpadma, ditto like great red lotus buds. Somewhat different names are also given. Cf. 倶舍論 8; 智度論 16; 涅槃經 11. II. The secondary hells are called 近邊地獄 adjacent hells or 十六遊增 each of its four sides, opening from each such door are four adjacent hells, in all sixteen; thus with the original eight there are 136. A list of eighteen hells is given in the 十八泥梨經. III. A third class is called the 孤地獄 (獨地獄) Lokāntarika, or isolated hells in mountains, deserts, below the earth and above it. Eitel says in regard to the eight hot hells that they range 'one beneath the other in tiers which begin at a depth of 11,900 yojanas and reach to a depth of 40,000 yojanas'. The cold hells are under 'the two Tchahavālas and range shaft-like one below the other, but so that this shaft is gradually widening to the fourth hell and then narrowing itself again so that the first and last hell have the shortest, those in the centre the longest diameter'. 'Every universe has the same number of hells, ' but 'the northern continent has no hell whatever, the two continents east and west of Meru have only small Lokāntarika hells... whilst all the other hells are required for the inhabitants of the southern continent '. It may be noted that the purpose of these hells is definitely punitive, as well as purgatorial. Yama is the judge and ruler, assisted by eighteen officers and a host of demons, who order or administer the various degrees of torture. 'His sister performs the same duties with regard to female criminals, ' and it may be mentioned that the Chinese have added the 血盆池 Lake of the bloody bath, or 'placenta tank' for women who die in childbirth. Release from the hells is in the power of the monks by tantric means. |
両 see styles |
liǎng liang3 liang ryou / ryo りょう |
Japanese variant of 兩|两[liang3] (pref,adj-no) (1) both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); (counter) (2) (See 輛・りょう) counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; (3) (See 匁・もんめ・1) ryō; tael; traditional unit of weight (for gold, silver and drugs), 4-5 monme, 15-19 g; (4) ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold; (5) (See 反・たん・1) ryō; traditional measure of fabric, 2 tan; (6) (archaism) (See 斤・1) ryō; tael; unit of weight under the ritsuryō system, 1-16 kin, 42-43 g; (counter) (7) (archaism) (See 領・りょう・2) counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.; (place-name) Ryō |
朵 see styles |
duǒ duo3 to |
flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc |
構 构 see styles |
gòu gou4 kou kamae かまえ |
to construct; to form; to make up; to compose; literary composition; paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) (irregular okurigana usage) (1) structure; construction; appearance; (2) posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance; (3) readiness; determination; preparedness; (4) kanji enclosure type radical (must enclose at least two sides of the kanji); (kana only) paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera); (surname) Kamae |
琮 see styles |
cóng cong2 ts`ung tsung |
jade tube with round hole and rectangular sides, used ceremonially in ancient times |
甬 see styles |
yǒng yong3 yung |
path screened by walls on both sides |
脇 胁 see styles |
xié xie2 hsieh wakihama わきはま |
variant of 脅|胁[xie2] (1) armpit; under one's arm; side; flank; (2) beside; close to; near; by; (3) aside; to the side; away; out of the way; (4) off-track; off-topic; (5) deuteragonist; supporting role; (6) (abbreviation) second verse (in a linked series of poems); (adj-no,n-adv,n-t) (1) side; edge; beside; besides; nearby; (adverbial noun) (2) (kana only) while (doing); in addition to; at the same time; (surname) Wakihama The ribs, flanks, sides; forceful, to coerce. |
臁 see styles |
lián lian2 lien |
sides of the lower part of the leg |
軨 see styles |
líng ling2 ling |
lattice work on front and sides |
邊 边 see styles |
bian bian5 pien hotori ほとり |
suffix of a noun of locality (surname) Hotori A side, edge, margin, border.; The two sides, extremes, or antitheses. |
錏 铔 see styles |
yà ya4 ya shikoro しころ |
ammonium (old) series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet |
錣 see styles |
shikoro しころ |
series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet |
顬 颥 see styles |
rú ru2 ju |
see 顳顬|颞颥, temple (the sides of human head) |
三辺 see styles |
minabe みなべ |
three sides (length, width and height); (surname) Minabe |
三面 see styles |
mizura みづら |
three sides; three faces; page three (of a newspaper); (place-name) Mizura |
両側 see styles |
ryougawa(p); ryousoku / ryogawa(p); ryosoku りょうがわ(P); りょうそく |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) both sides |
両全 see styles |
ryouzen / ryozen りょうぜん |
(1) completeness in both (e.g. loyalty and filial piety, study and sports); (can be adjective with の) (2) advantageous to both sides |
両損 see styles |
ryouson; ryouzon / ryoson; ryozon りょうそん; りょうぞん |
loss on both sides |
両方 see styles |
ryoukata / ryokata りょうかた |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (See 片方・1) both; both sides; both parties; (surname) Ryōkata |
両胸 see styles |
ryoumune / ryomune りょうむね |
(1) both sides of the chest; (2) both breasts |
両脇 see styles |
ryouwaki / ryowaki りょうわき |
both sides |
両舷 see styles |
ryougen / ryogen りょうげん |
both sides of a ship |
両軍 see styles |
ryougun / ryogun りょうぐん |
(1) both armies; (2) both teams; both sides |
両辺 see styles |
ryouhen / ryohen りょうへん |
both sides |
両隣 see styles |
ryoudonari / ryodonari りょうどなり |
both sides |
両鬢 see styles |
ryoubin / ryobin りょうびん |
(See 双鬢) sideburns; hair at the sides of the head |
二側 二侧 see styles |
èr cè er4 ce4 erh ts`e erh tse |
two sides |
倒戈 see styles |
dǎo gē dao3 ge1 tao ko |
to change sides in a war; turncoat |
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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 | |
| Listen to Both Sides and be Enlightened, Listen to One Side and be in the Dark | 兼聽則明偏聽則暗 兼听则明偏听则暗 | jiān tīng zé míng, piān tīng zé àn jian1 ting1 ze2 ming2, pian1 ting1 ze2 an4 jian ting ze ming, pian ting ze an | chien t`ing tse ming, p`ien t`ing tse an chien ting tse ming, pien ting tse an |
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| Sanbo | 三方 | sanbou / sanpou / mitsukata sanbo / sanpo / mitsukata | ||
| 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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