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Lake
湖 means lake in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
湖 is used in place names (like Lake Huron) and as a descriptive term for any large body of fresh water.
In Japanese, this can also be the female given name Reiku.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
江 see styles |
jiāng jiang1 chiang kou / ko こう |
More info & calligraphy: Large River(1) (archaism) large river (esp. the Yangtze); (2) (archaism) (See 琵琶湖) Lake Biwa; (given name) Minkou A river; the River, the Yangtsze. |
湖 see styles |
hú hu2 hu mizuumi / mizumi みずうみ |
More info & calligraphy: Lakelake; (female given name) Reiku A lake. |
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. |
明鏡 明镜 see styles |
míng jìng ming2 jing4 ming ching meikyou; myoukyou; meikei / mekyo; myokyo; meke めいきょう; みょうきょう; めいけい |
More info & calligraphy: Mirror: Beautiful Claritypolished mirror; clear mirror; (personal name) Meikyō a [clear] mirror |
鏡花水月 镜花水月 see styles |
jìng huā shuǐ yuè jing4 hua1 shui3 yue4 ching hua shui yüeh kyoukasuigetsu / kyokasuigetsu きょうかすいげつ |
More info & calligraphy: Flower in the Mirror, Moon on Water(yoji) flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words |
泊 see styles |
pō po1 p`o po haku はく |
lake; Taiwan pr. [bo2] (counter) (1) counter for nights of a stay; (2) (rare) overnight stay; lodging; (surname, given name) Haku to stop |
淀 see styles |
diàn dian4 tien yodo よど |
shallow lake (1) stagnation; deposit; sediment; backwater; (2) faltering; hesitation; pause; pool (in river); (place-name, surname) Yodo |
潢 see styles |
huáng huang2 huang |
dye paper; lake; pond; mount scroll |
澧 see styles |
lǐ li3 li |
Lishui River in north Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖[Dong4ting2 Hu2]; surname Li |
濱 滨 see styles |
bīn bin1 pin hin ひん |
(bound form) water's edge; bank; shore; (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc) (surname) Hin |
鄱 see styles |
pó po2 p`o po |
name of a lake |
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. |
内海 see styles |
naikai(p); uchiumi ないかい(P); うちうみ |
(1) inland sea; inlet; gulf; bay; (2) (うちうみ only) (archaism) lake; (surname) Naigai |
冰湖 see styles |
bīng hú bing1 hu2 ping hu |
frozen lake |
前水 see styles |
sensui せんすい |
(1) garden pond; miniature lake; (2) fountain |
北海 see styles |
běi hǎi bei3 hai3 pei hai hokkai ほっかい |
Beihai, park in Beijing to the northwest of the Forbidden City; the North Sea (Europe); Beihai prefecture-level city and seaport in Guangxi; Bohai Sea; Lake Baikal (1) northern sea; (2) North Sea; (n,n-pref) (3) (abbreviation) (See 北海道) Hokkaido; (surname) Hokkai |
千泉 see styles |
qiān quán qian1 quan2 ch`ien ch`üan chien chüan chisen ちせん |
(female given name) Chisen Bingheul 屛律 Mingbulak. A lake country 30 li E. of Talas. |
取水 see styles |
qǔ shuǐ qu3 shui3 ch`ü shui chü shui shusui しゅすい |
water intake; to obtain water (from a well etc) (n,vs,vt,vi) drawing water from river or lake; water intake |
哈密 see styles |
hā mì ha1 mi4 ha mi Gōmitsu |
Hami, prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Hami, 'an ancient city and kingdom in Central Asia north-east of lake Lop in Lat. 43゜3 N., Long, 93°10 E.' Eitel. From Han to Tang times known as I-wu 伊吾, now called Kumul by Turki Mohammadans. For more than 1500 years, owing to its location and supply of water, Hami was a bridgehead for the expansion and control of the outposts of the Chinese empire in Central Asia. |
四河 see styles |
sì hé si4 he2 ssu ho shigou / shigo しごう |
(place-name) Shigou The four rivers— Ganges, Sindhu (Indus), Vākṣu (Oxus), and Tārīm, all reputed to arise out of a lake, Anavatapta, in Tibet. |
基奈 see styles |
jī nài ji1 nai4 chi nai |
Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska (Tw) |
塩湖 see styles |
enko えんこ |
salt lake; saline lake |
増水 see styles |
zousui / zosui ぞうすい |
(n,vs,vi) (See 減水) rising water (of river, lake, etc.); swelling water; increased water; high water; (surname) Masumizu |
天池 see styles |
tiān chí tian1 chi2 t`ien ch`ih tien chih tenchi てんち |
"heavenly lake", lake situated on a mountain; used as the name of numerous lakes, such as 長白山天池|长白山天池[Chang2 bai2 shan1 Tian1 chi2] (personal name) Tenchi |
寶池 宝池 see styles |
bǎo chí bao3 chi2 pao ch`ih pao chih takaraike たからいけ |
(surname) Takaraike The precious lake of the eight virtuous characteristics in the Pure Land. |
後海 后海 see styles |
hòu hǎi hou4 hai3 hou hai |
Houhai, a lake and the area surrounding it in central Beijing |
恒河 see styles |
héng hé heng2 he2 heng ho hisaka ひさか |
(personal name) Hisaka 恒水; 恒伽 (竸伽, 殑伽, or 強伽) Gaṅgā, the river Ganges, 'said to drop from the centre of Śiva's ear into the Anavatapta lake' (Eitel), passing through an orifice called variously ox's mouth, lion's mouth, golden elephant's mouth, then round the lake and out to the ocean on the south-east. |
斷橋 断桥 see styles |
duàn qiáo duan4 qiao2 tuan ch`iao tuan chiao |
The Broken Bridge (at West Lake in Hangzhou) |
条蝦 see styles |
sujiebi すじえび |
(kana only) lake prawn (Palaemon paucidens) |
條支 条支 see styles |
tiáo zhī tiao2 zhi1 t`iao chih tiao chih Jōshi |
The Tajiks anciently settled 'near the Sirikol lake'. Eitel. |
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| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Lake | 湖 | mizumi | hú / hu2 / hu | |
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