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Moonlight in Chinese / Japanese...
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月光 is the Chinese, old Korean Hanja, and Japanese Kanji title for moonlight.
This can also be used to describe a moonbeam, and can be a given name all three languages (pronounced as Rumi when used as a female given name in Japanese).
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
日光 see styles |
rì guāng / ri4 guang1 jih kuang Nikkō / にっこう |
 More info & calligraphy: sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams; (female given name) Himi (日光菩薩); 蘇利也波羅皮遮那 Sūrya-prabhāsana. Sunlight, and 月光 (月光菩薩) Moonlight, name of two Bodhisattva assistants of 藥師 the Master of Healing; Sunlight is the ninth in the Dizang Court of the Garbhadhātu group; sunlight |
月光 see styles |
yuè guāng / yue4 guang1 yüeh kuang Gekkō / げっこう |
 More info & calligraphy: moonlight; moonbeam; (female given name) Rumi Candraprabha, 戰達羅鉢刺婆 Moonlight. One of the three honoured ones in the Vajradhātu, and in the Mañjuśrī court of the Garbhadhātu, known also as 淸涼金剛. |
亮月 see styles |
ryougetsu / ryogetsu / りょうげつ | bright moonlight |
兼差 see styles |
jiān chāi / jian1 chai1 chien ch`ai / chien chai |
to moonlight; side job |
幻月 see styles |
gengetsu / げんげつ | (See 幻日) paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the Moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) |
月下 see styles |
gekka / げっか | in the moonlight; (surname) Tsukishita |
月影 see styles |
getsuei;tsukikage / getsue;tsukikage / げつえい;つきかげ | moonlight; moon; moonbeams; (place-name) Tsukikage |
月明 see styles |
yuè míng / yue4 ming2 yüeh ming getsumyō / げつめい |
moonlight; (female given name) Tsukime moons shining |
月桂 see styles |
yuè guì / yue4 gui4 yüeh kuei gekkei / gekke / げっけい |
laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; bay leaf (1) (abbreviation) (See 月桂樹) bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree; (2) moon; moonlight; (3) (orig. meaning) katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends) |
月色 see styles |
yuè sè / yue4 se4 yüeh se gesshoku / げっしょく |
moonlight moonlight |
月華 月华 see styles |
yuè huá / yue4 hua2 yüeh hua nonoka / ののか |
moonlight (female given name) Nonoka |
月虹 see styles |
gekkou / gekko / げっこう | moonbow; lunar rainbow; whitish rainbow cast by moonlight; lunar bow; space rainbow; (female given name) Yuena |
炒更 see styles |
chǎo gēng / chao3 geng1 ch`ao keng / chao keng |
to moonlight |
皎潔 皎洁 see styles |
jiǎo jié / jiao3 jie2 chiao chieh |
shining clean; bright (moonlight) |
藥師 药师 see styles |
yào shī / yao4 shi1 yao shih Yakushi / やくし |
(surname) Yakushi Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabhāṣa; 藥師璢璃光如來; 大醫王佛; 醫王善逝, etc. The Buddha of Medicine, who heals all diseases, including the disease of ignorance. His image is often at the left of Śākyamuni Buddha's, and he is associated with the east. The history of this personification is not yet known, but cf. the chapter on the 藥王 in the Lotus Sutra. There are several sutras relating to him, the藥王璢璃光, etc., tr. by Xuanzang circa A.D. 650, and others. There are shrines of the 藥王三尊 the three honoured doctors, with Yaoshi in the middle and as assistants 日光邊照 the Bodhisattva Sunlight everywhere shining on his right and 月光邊照 the Bodhisattva Moonlight, etc., on his left. The 藥王七佛 seven healing Buddhas are also all in the east. There are also the 藥王十二神將 twelve spiritual generals or protectors of Yaoshi, for guarding his worshippers. |
踏月 see styles |
tà yuè / ta4 yue4 t`a yüeh / ta yüeh |
to go for a walk in the moonlight |
金波 see styles |
kinpa / きんぱ | golden waves; moonlight; (surname) Kinnami |
降る see styles |
furu / ふる | (v5r,vi) (1) to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; (2) to form (of frost); (3) to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; (4) to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.); to come; to arrive |
二脇士 二胁士 see styles |
èr xié shì / er4 xie2 shi4 erh hsieh shih ni kyōshi |
二挾侍 The two attendants by the side of Amitābha, i.e. 觀音 Guanyin and 大勢至 Mahāsthāmaprāpta; also the two by Yaoshi, the Master of Medicine, i.e. 日光 sunlight and 月光 moonlight; also the two by Śākyamuni, i.e. 文殊 Mañjuśrī and 普賢 Samantabhadra. |
夜逃げ see styles |
yonige / よにげ | (noun/participle) night flight (without paying); skipping out by night; moonlight flit |
月下に see styles |
gekkani / げっかに | (adverb) in the moonlight |
月光族 see styles |
yuè guāng zú / yue4 guang1 zu2 yüeh kuang tsu |
lit. moonlight group; fig. those who spend their monthly income even before they earn their next salary (slang) |
月光王 see styles |
yuè guāng wáng / yue4 guang1 wang2 yüeh kuang wang |
Moonlight king, the same as 月光太子, the name of Śākyamuni in a previous incarnation when he gave his head to a brahman. |
月夜茸 see styles |
tsukiyotake;tsukiyotake / つきよたけ;ツキヨタケ | (kana only) moonlight mushroom (Omphalotus guepiniformis) |
月明り see styles |
tsukiakari / つきあかり | moonlight |
井中撈月 井中捞月 see styles |
jǐng zhōng lāo yuè / jing3 zhong1 lao1 yue4 ching chung lao yüeh shōchū rōgetsu |
Like ladling the moon out of the well; the parable of the monkeys who saw the moon fallen into a well, and fearing there would be no more moonlight, sought to save it; the monkey-king hung on to a branch, one hung on to his tail and so on, but the branch broke and all were drowned; scooping the moon out of well water |
月あかり see styles |
tsukiakari / つきあかり | moonlight |
月下花前 see styles |
yuè xià huā qián / yue4 xia4 hua1 qian2 yüeh hsia hua ch`ien / yüeh hsia hua chien |
lit. amidst the flowers under the moonlight (idiom); fig. romantic surroundings |
月光太子 see styles |
yuè guāng tài zǐ / yue4 guang1 tai4 zi3 yüeh kuang t`ai tzu / yüeh kuang tai tzu Gakkō taishi |
Moonlight prince, name of Śākyamuni in a previous incarnation as a prince, when he split one of his bones to anoint a leper with its marrow and gave him of his blood to drink. 智度論 12; Prince Moonlight |
月光菩薩 月光菩萨 see styles |
yuè guāng pú sà / yue4 guang1 pu2 sa4 yüeh kuang p`u sa / yüeh kuang pu sa Gakkō Bosatsu / がっこうぼさつ |
{Buddh} Candraprabha (bodhisattva) The bodhisattva Moonlight who attends on 藥師 the Master of Healing; also in the Mañjuśrī court of the Garbhadhātu; used for 月光王; v. 月光菩薩經; Moonlight Bodhisattva |
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| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Moonlight | 月光 | gekkou / geko | yuè guāng yue4 guang1 yue guang yueguang | yüeh kuang yüehkuang |
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