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長女 is a Chinese, old Korean Hanja, and Japanese Kanji title for eldest daughter or firstborn daughter.
This can also be a given name “Osame” in Japanese.
長男 is a Chinese, old Korean Hanja and Japanese Kanji title for eldest son (may be the only son), firstborn son.
This can also be the Japanese personal name “Nobuo.”
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Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
惣領 see styles |
souryou / soryo そうりょう |
More info & calligraphy: First Born |
長女 长女 see styles |
zhǎng nǚ zhang3 nu:3 chang nü choujo / chojo ちょうじょ |
More info & calligraphy: First Born Daughter(may be the only daughter) eldest daughter; first-born daughter; (given name) Osame |
長男 长男 see styles |
zhǎng nán zhang3 nan2 chang nan chounan / chonan ちょうなん |
More info & calligraphy: First Born Soneldest son (may be the only son); first-born son; (personal name) Nobuo |
釋迦牟尼 释迦牟尼 see styles |
shì jiā móu ní shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2 shih chia mou ni Shakamuni |
More info & calligraphy: Shakyamuni / The Buddha釋迦文 (釋迦文尼); 釋伽文 Śākyamuni, the saint of the Śākya tribe. muni is saint, holy man, sage, ascetic monk; it is: intp. as 仁 benevolent, charitable, kind, also as 寂默 one who dwells in seclusion. After '500 or 550' previous incarnations, Śākyamuni finally attained to the state of Bodhisattva, was born in the Tuṣita heaven, and descended as a white elephant, through her right side, into the womb of the immaculate Māyā, the purest woman on earth; this was on the 8th day of the 4th month; next year on the 8th day of the 2nd month he was born from her right side painlessly as she stood under a tree in the Lumbinī garden. For the subsequent miraculous events v. Eitel. also the 神通遊戲經 (Lalitavistara), the 釋迦如來成道記, etc. Simpler statements say that he was born the son of Śuddhodana, of the kṣatriya caste, ruler of Kapilavastu, and Māyā his wife; that Māyā died seven days later, leaving him to be brought up by her sister Prājapati; that in due course he was married to Yaśodharā who bore him a son, Rāhula; that in search of truth he left home, became an ascetic, severely disciplined himself, and finally at 35 years of age, under a tree, realized that the way of release from the chain of rebirth and death lay not in asceticism but in moral purity; this he explained first in his four dogmas, v. 四諦 and eightfold noble way 八正道, later amplified and developed in many sermons. He founded his community on the basis of poverty, chastity, and insight or meditation, ad it became known as Buddhism, as he became known as Buddha, the enlightened. His death was probably in or near 487 B.C., a few years before that of Confucius in 479. The sacerdotal name of his family is Gautama, said to be the original name of the whole clan, Śākya being that of his branch, v. 瞿, 喬.; his personal name was Siddhārtha, or Sarvārthasiddha, v. 悉. |
阿 see styles |
ē e1 o a あ |
(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with (1) (See 阿字・あじ) first Sanskrit alphabet letter; (2) (abbreviation) (See 阿弗利加・アフリカ) Africa; (3) (abbreviation) Awa (old province of Japan); (prefix) (4) (familiar language) (archaism) prefixed to names to show intimacy; (surname) Hodo M077477 羅陀補羅 Anurādhapura, a northern city of Ceylon, at which tradition says Buddhism was introduced into the island; cf. Abhayagiri, 阿跋.; M077477 樓馱 v. 阿那律Aniruddha.; a or ā, अ, आ. It is the first letter of the Sanskrit Siddham alphabet, and is also translit. by 曷, 遏, 安, 頞, 韻, 噁, etc. From it are supposed to be born all the other letters, and it is the first sound uttered by the human mouth. It has therefore numerous mystical indications. Being also a negation it symbolizes the unproduced, the impermanent, the immaterial; but it is employed in many ways indicative of the positive. Amongst other uses it indicates Amitābha, from the first syllable in that name. It is much in use for esoteric purposes. |
一女 see styles |
ichijo いちじょ |
(1) one daughter; (2) (See 長女) eldest daughter; first-born daughter; (female given name) Hime |
下地 see styles |
xià dì xia4 di4 hsia ti shitaji したじ |
to go down to the fields; to get up from bed; to leave one's sickbed; to be born (1) groundwork; foundation; (2) inclination; aptitude; elementary knowledge (of); grounding (in); (3) undercoat; first coat; (4) (See お下地) soy sauce; (surname) Shimoji The lower regions of the 九地 q. v.; also the lower half of the 十地 in the fifty-two grades of bodhisattva development. |
不生 see styles |
bù shēng bu4 sheng1 pu sheng fushou / fusho ふしょう |
(place-name) Fushou anutpatti; anutpāda. Non-birth: not to be reborn, exempt from rebirth; arhan is mistakenly interpreted as 'not born', meaning not born again into mortal worlds. The 'nir' in nirvana is also erroneously said to mean 'not born'; certain schools say that nothing ever has been born, or created, for all is eternal. The Shingon word 'a' is interpreted as symbolizing the uncreated. The unborn or uncreated is a name for the Tathāgata, who is not born, but eternal ; hence by implication the term means "eternal". ādi, which means"at first, " "beginning","primary", is also interpreted as 不生 uncreated. |
前起 see styles |
qián qǐ qian2 qi3 ch`ien ch`i chien chi zenki |
born first or earlier |
四生 see styles |
sì shēng si4 sheng1 ssu sheng shishou / shisho ししょう |
{Buddh} the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni catur-yoni, the four forms of birth: (1) 胎 or 生 jarāyuja, viviparous, as with mammalia; (2) 卵生 aṇḍaja, oviparous, as with birds; (3) 濕生 or 寒熱和合生 saṃsvedaja, moisture, or water-born, as with worms and fishes; (4) 化生 aupapāduka, metamorphic, as with moths from the chrysalis, or with devas, or in the hells, or the first beings in a newly evolved world. |
天眼 see styles |
tiān yǎn tian1 yan3 t`ien yen tien yen tengen; tengan てんげん; てんがん |
nickname of the FAST radio telescope (in Guizhou) (1) {Buddh} (See 五眼) the heavenly eye; (2) (てんがん only) (rare) rolling back one's eyes during convulsions; (given name) Tengan divyacakṣṣus. The deva-eye; the first abhijñā, v. 六通; one of the five classes of eyes; divine sight, unlimited vision; all things are open to it, large and small, near and distant, the destiny of all beings in future rebirths. It may be obtained among men by their human eyes through the practice of meditation 修得: and as a reward or natural possession by those born in the deva heavens 報得. Cf 天耳, etc. |
天親 天亲 see styles |
tiān qīn tian1 qin1 t`ien ch`in tien chin amachika あまちか |
one's flesh and blood (surname) Amachika Vasubandhu, 伐蘇畔度; 婆藪槃豆 (or 婆修槃豆) (or 婆修槃陀) 'akin to the gods ', or 世親 'akin to the world'. Vasubandhu is described as a native of Puruṣapura, or Peshawar, by Eitel as of Rājagriha, born '900 years after the nirvana', or about A. D. 400; Takakusu suggests 420-500, Peri puts his death not later than 350. In Eitel's day the date of his death was put definitely at A. D. 117. Vasubandhu's great work, the Abhidharmakośa, is only one of his thirty-six works. He is said to be the younger brother of Asaṅga of the Yogācāra school, by whom he was converted from the Sarvāstivāda school of thought to that of Mahāyāna and of Nāgārjuna. On his conversion he would have 'cut out his tongue' for its past heresy, but was dissuaded by his brother, who bade him use the same tongue to correct his errors, whereupon he wrote the 唯識論 and other Mahayanist works. He is called the twenty-first patriarch and died in Ayodhya. |
智顗 智𫖮 see styles |
zhì yǐ zhi4 yi3 chih i Chigi |
Zhiyi (538-597), founder of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism Zhiyi, founder of the Tiantai school, also known as 智者 and 天台 (天台大師); his surname was 陳 Chen; his 字 was 德安, De-an; born about A. D. 538, he died in 597 at 60 years of age. He was a native of 頴川 Ying-chuan in Anhui, became a neophyte at 7, was fully ordained at 20. At first a follower of 慧思, Huisi, in 575 he went to the Tiantai mountain in Chekiang, where he founded his famous school on the Lotus Sūtra as containing the complete gospel of the Buddha. |
總領 see styles |
souryou / soryo そうりょう |
(out-dated kanji) (1) eldest child; oldest child; first-born child; (2) child who carries on the family name; (3) (archaism) pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces; (4) (archaism) head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period) |
逆産 see styles |
gyakuzan ぎゃくざん |
baby born feet (or buttocks) first; breech birth |
一の宮 see styles |
ichinomiya いちのみや |
(1) (archaism) (See 一の御子) first-born imperial prince; (2) most important provincial shrine; (place-name, surname) Ichinomiya |
八王子 see styles |
bā wáng zǐ ba1 wang2 zi3 pa wang tzu hachiouji / hachioji はちおうじ |
Hachiōji (city); (place-name, surname) Hachiouji; Hachioji The eight sons of the last of the 20,000 shining Buddhas 燈明佛 born before he left home to become a monk; their names are given in the first chapter of the Lotus sūtra. In Japan there are also eight sons of a Shinto deity, reincarnated as one of the six Guanyin. |
同生天 see styles |
tóng shēng tiān tong2 sheng1 tian1 t`ung sheng t`ien tung sheng tien dōshō ten |
同生神; 同名天 The first two of these terms are intp. as the guardian deva, or spirit, who is sahaja, i. e. born or produced simultaneously with the person he protects; the last is the deva who has the same name as the one he protects. |
四空定 see styles |
sì kōng dìng si4 kong1 ding4 ssu k`ung ting ssu kung ting shi kūjō |
四無色定 The last four of the twelve dhyānas; the auto-hypnotic, or ecstatic entry into the four states represented by the four dhyāna heavens, i. e. 四 空 處 supra. In the first, the mind becomes void and vast like space; in the second, the powers of perception and understanding are unlimited; in the third, the discriminative powers of mind are subdued; in the fourth, the realm of consciousness or knowledge) without thought is reached, e. g. intuitive wisdom. These four are considered both as states of dhyāna, and as heavens into which one who practices these forms of dhyāna may be born. |
大梵天 see styles |
dà fàn tiān da4 fan4 tian1 ta fan t`ien ta fan tien Daibon ten |
Mahābrahman; Brahma; 跋羅吸摩; 波羅賀磨; 梵覽摩; 梵天王; 梵王; 梵. Eitel says: "The first person of the Brahminical Trimūrti, adopted by Buddhism, but placed in an inferior position, being looked upon not as Creator, but as a transitory devatā whom every Buddhistic saint surpasses on obtaining bodhi. Notwithstanding this, the Saddharma-puṇḍarīka calls Brahma 'the father of all living beings'" 一切衆生之父. Mahābrahman is the unborn or uncreated ruler over all, especially according to Buddhism over all the heavens of form, i.e. of mortality. He rules over these heavens, which are of threefold form: (a) Brahma (lord), (b) Brahma-purohitas (ministers), and (c) Brahma-pāriṣadyāh (people). His heavens are also known as the middle dhyāna heavens, i.e. between the first and second dhyānas. He is often represented on the right of the Buddha. According to Chinese accounts the Hindus speak of him (1) as born of Nārāyaṇa, from Brahma's mouth sprang the brahmans, from his arms the kṣatriyas, from his thighs the vaiśyas, and from his feet the śūdras; (2) as born from Viṣṇu; (3) as a trimūrti, evidently that of Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but Buddhists define Mahābrahma's dharmakāya as Maheśvara (Śiva), his saṃbhogakāya as Nārāyaṇa, and his nirmāṇakāya as Brahmā. He is depicted as riding on a swan, or drawn by swans. |
宮参り see styles |
miyamairi みやまいり |
(n,vs,vi) (1) {Shinto} miyamairi; newborn child's first visit to a shrine (within about 30 days of being born); (n,vs,vi) (2) {Shinto} visiting a shrine |
年強い see styles |
toshizuyoi としづよい |
child born in first half of the year |
意生身 see styles |
yì shēng shēn yi4 sheng1 shen1 i sheng shen ishoushin / ishoshin いしょうしん |
{Buddh} mind-made body; body as born out of a certain kind of intent or mindfulness A body mentally produced, or produced at will, a tr. of manomaya. Bodhisattvas from the first stage 地 upwards are able to take any form at will to save the living ; also 意生化身 ; 意成身. |
頂生王 顶生王 see styles |
dǐng shēng wáng ding3 sheng1 wang2 ting sheng wang |
Mūrdhaja-rāja, the king born from the crown of the head, name of the first cakravartī ancestors of the Śākya clan; the name is also applied to a former incarnation of Śākyamuni. |
一の御子 see styles |
ichinomiko いちのみこ |
(archaism) first-born imperial prince |
五種法身 五种法身 see styles |
wǔ zhǒng fǎ shēn wu3 zhong3 fa3 shen1 wu chung fa shen goshu hosshin |
The five kinds of a Buddha's dharmakāya. There are four groups. I. (1) 如如智法身 the spiritual body of bhūtatathatā-wisdom; (2) 功德法身 of all virtuous achievement; (3) 自法身 of incarnation in the world; (4) 變化法身 of unlimited powers of transformation; (5) 虛空法身 of unlimited space; the first and second are defined as saṃbhogakāya, the third and fourth as nirmāṇakāya, and the fifth as the dharmakāya, but all are included under dharmakāya as it possesses all the others. II. The esoteric cult uses the first four and adds as fifth 法界身 indicating the universe as pan-Buddha. III. Huayan gives (1) 法性生身 the body or person of Buddha born from the dharma-nature. (2) 功德生身 the dharmakāya evolved by Buddha virtue, or achievement; (3) 變化法身 the dharmakāya with unlimited powers of transformation; (4) 實相法身 the real dharmakāya; (5) 虛 空法身 the universal dharmakāya. IV. Hīnayāna defines them as 五分法身 q. v. |
八種勝法 八种胜法 see styles |
bā zhǒng shèng fǎ ba1 zhong3 sheng4 fa3 pa chung sheng fa hasshu shōhō |
The eight kinds of surpassing things, i.e. those who keep the first eight commandments receive the eight kinds of reward―they escape from falling into the hells; becoming pretas; or animals; or asuras; they will be born among men, become monks, and obtain the truth; in the heavens of desire; in the brahma-heaven, or meet a Buddha; and obtain perfect enlightenment. |
昭和一桁 see styles |
shouwahitoketa / showahitoketa しょうわひとけた |
(generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (1926-1934) |
総領の甚六 see styles |
souryounojinroku / soryonojinroku そうりょうのじんろく |
(expression) (proverb) first born, least clever |
口から生まれる see styles |
kuchikaraumareru くちからうまれる |
(exp,v1) (idiom) (derogatory term) to be of an overly talkative disposition since birth; to be born mouth first |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
First Born | 惣領 | souryou / soryo | ||
First Born Daughter | 長女 长女 | choujo / chojo | zhǎng zhang3 nu:3 zhang nu: zhangnu: | chang nü changnü |
First Born Son | 長男 长男 | chounan / chonan | zhǎng nán zhang3 nan2 zhang nan zhangnan | chang nan changnan |
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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