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信仰 means firm belief, faith, persuasion, conviction, and sometimes religion or creed in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
This clearly fits the religious connotation of the English word “devotion.”
This is often used to refer to a person of faith or a religious person.
This can be directly translated as “firm belief,” “creed,” “conviction,” or simply as “religious,” depending on context.
Some will also use this to mean “trust in God” in Japanese (though the term for God is not actually in this title).
It should be noted that this word is a little strange alone on a wall scroll.
While this can be pronounced in Japanese, it’s not a great selection for a wall scroll if your audience is Japanese.
See Also: Faith | Trust | Devotion | Trust | Trust in God
南無釋迦牟尼佛 is a Buddhist chant or prayer of respect to the Shakyamuni Buddha.
Some will translate this as the Buddhist vow.
The first two characters, 南無, are sometimes translated as “amen”; others will translate it as “belief in” or “homage to.”
To expand on this, 南無 can also mean “taking of refuge in” while representing devotion or conviction. 南無 as with most religious concepts or words, different people or denominations will have varying definitions.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your conviction search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
信仰 see styles |
xìn yǎng xin4 yang3 hsin yang shinkou / shinko しんこう |
More info & calligraphy: Religious Devotion / Faith in God / Religious Faith(noun, transitive verb) (religious) faith; belief; creed; (given name) Shinkou To believe in and look up to. |
信念 see styles |
xìn niàn xin4 nian4 hsin nien shinnen しんねん |
More info & calligraphy: Faith / Trusting in the Unseenbelief; faith; conviction |
前 see styles |
qián qian2 ch`ien chien misaki みさき |
front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly (1) in front (of); before (e.g. a building); (n,adj-no,adv) (2) before; earlier; previously; prior; ago; (minutes) to (the hour); (noun - becomes adjective with の) (3) (the) front; frontal part; fore; head (e.g. of a line); (4) forward; ahead; (5) (in the) presence (of); in front (of someone); (can be adjective with の) (6) previous (e.g. page); prior (e.g. engagement); first (e.g. half); former (e.g. example); (suffix) (7) (after a noun or the -masu stem of a verb) (See 一人前・1) portion; helping; (8) front (of one's body or clothing); breast (of a coat, kimono, etc.); (9) privates; private parts; (10) (colloquialism) criminal record; previous conviction; (a) prior; (personal name) Misaki pūrva. Before; former, previous; in front. |
緣 缘 see styles |
yuán yuan2 yüan en |
cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along pratyaya means conviction, reliance, but with Buddhists especially it means 'a co-operating cause, the concurrent occasion of an event as distinguished from its proximate cause'. M.W. It is the circumstantial, conditioning, or secondary cause, in contrast with 因 hetu, the direct or fundamental cause. hetu is as the seed, pratyaya the soil, rain, sunshine, etc. To reason, conclude. To climb, lay hold of. The mind 能緣can reason, the objective is 所緣, the two in contact constitute the reasoning process. The four kinds of causes are 因緣; 次第緣; 緣緣, and 增上緣 q.v. |
證 证 see styles |
zhèng zheng4 cheng akira あきら |
certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm; variant of 症[zheng4] (given name) Akira To prove, witness to, testify, substantiate, attain to; evidence; experience; realize; assurance, conviction; v. 阿 abhisaṃbuddha. |
二入 see styles |
èr rù er4 ru4 erh ju futairi ふたいり |
(place-name) Futairi The two ways of entering the truth:— 理入 by conviction intellectually, 行入 by (proving it in) practice. |
信条 see styles |
shinjou / shinjo しんじょう |
creed; belief; conviction; article of faith |
信述 see styles |
xìn shù xin4 shu4 hsin shu shinjutsu |
conviction |
修堅 修坚 see styles |
xiū jiān xiu1 jian1 hsiu chien shuken |
Firmness in observing or maintaining; established conviction, e.g. of the 別教 bodhisattva that all phenomena in essence are identical. |
前科 see styles |
qián kē qian2 ke1 ch`ien k`o chien ko zenka ぜんか |
criminal record; previous convictions previous conviction; criminal record; previous offense; previous offence |
前罪 see styles |
zenzai ぜんざい |
(See 前科) previous conviction |
妄執 妄执 see styles |
wàng zhí wang4 zhi2 wang chih mōjū もうしゅう |
(Buddhist term) deep-rooted delusion; firm conviction (based on incorrect beliefs) False tenets, holding on to false views. |
妄念 see styles |
wàng niàn wang4 nian4 wang nien mounen / monen もうねん |
wild fantasy; unwarranted thought {Buddh} conviction based on flawed ideas; obstructive thought False or misleading thoughts. |
得信 see styles |
dé xìn de2 xin4 te hsin toku shin |
gains conviction |
心算 see styles |
xīn suàn xin1 suan4 hsin suan shinsan; shinzan; tsumori(gikun) しんさん; しんざん; つもり(gikun) |
mental arithmetic; to calculate in one's head; planning; preparation (1) (See つもり・1) intention; plan; purpose; expectation; (2) (つもり only) (See つもり・2) belief; assumption; thought; conviction |
心証 see styles |
shinshou / shinsho しんしょう |
(1) impression; (2) {law} strong belief (of the judge); conviction |
所信 see styles |
suǒ xìn suo3 xin4 so hsin shoshin しょしん |
belief; conviction; opinion to be trusted |
断獄 see styles |
dangoku だんごく |
(noun/participle) (1) (rare) trying of a crime; conviction; (noun/participle) (2) condemnation to death by beheading |
断罪 see styles |
danzai だんざい |
(n,vs,vi) (1) judgment (of a crime); conviction; condemnation; (2) (dated) beheading; decapitation |
生信 see styles |
shēng xìn sheng1 xin4 sheng hsin ikunobu いくのぶ |
(personal name) Ikunobu give rise to firm conviction |
盲執 see styles |
moushuu / moshu もうしゅう |
(irregular kanji usage) (Buddhist term) deep-rooted delusion; firm conviction (based on incorrect beliefs) |
確信 确信 see styles |
què xìn que4 xin4 ch`üeh hsin chüeh hsin kakushin かくしん |
to be convinced; to be sure; to firmly believe; to be positive that; definite news (noun, transitive verb) conviction; belief; confidence |
積り see styles |
tsumori つもり |
(1) (kana only) intention; plan; (2) (kana only) conviction; belief |
證悟 证悟 see styles |
zhèng wù zheng4 wu4 cheng wu shōgo |
Mystic insight; conviction by thinking, realization, to prove and ponder. |
不退転 see styles |
futaiten ふたいてん |
determination; conviction |
信解障 see styles |
xìn jiě zhàng xin4 jie3 zhang4 hsin chieh chang shinge shō |
obstruction to conviction |
積もり see styles |
tsumori つもり |
(1) (kana only) intention; plan; (2) (kana only) conviction; belief |
願樂位 see styles |
yuàn lè wèi yuan4 le4 wei4 yüan le wei |
stage of conviction |
信受奉行 see styles |
xìn shòu fèng xíng xin4 shou4 feng4 xing2 hsin shou feng hsing shinju bukyō |
In faith receive and obey, a sentence found at the end of sutras. |
匪石之心 see styles |
hisekinokokoro ひせきのこころ |
(yoji) steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Religious Devotion Faith in God Religious Faith | 信仰 | shin kou / shinkou / shin ko | xìn yǎng / xin4 yang3 / xin yang / xinyang | hsin yang / hsinyang |
Namo Shakyamuni Buddha | 南無釋迦牟尼佛 南无释迦牟尼佛 | namu shakamuni butsu namushakamunibutsu | nán wú shì jiā móu ní fó nan2 wu2 shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2 fo2 nan wu shi jia mou ni fo nanwushijiamounifo | nan wu shih chia mou ni fo nanwushihchiamounifo |
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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