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There are 7 total results for your 信女 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

信女

see styles
xìn nǚ
    xin4 nv3
hsin nü
 shinnyo
    しんにょ
(1) {Buddh} female lay devotee; (suffix) (2) (title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name) believer; (given name) Nobujo
upāsikā. A female devotee, who remains at home. Cf. 優.

淸信女

see styles
qīng xìn nǚ
    qing1 xin4 nv3
ch`ing hsin nü
    ching hsin nü
 seishin nyo
a woman of pure faith

無信女


无信女

see styles
wú xìn nǚ
    wu2 xin4 nv3
wu hsin nü
 mushin nyo
faithless women

信士信女

see styles
xìn shì xìn nǚ
    xin4 shi4 xin4 nv3
hsin shih hsin nü
 shinshi shinnyo
male and female lay believers

善男信女

see styles
shàn nán xìn nǚ
    shan4 nan2 xin4 nu:3
shan nan hsin nü
 zennan shinnyo
lay practitioners of Buddhism
Good men and believing women.

五戒淸信女

see styles
wǔ jiè qīng xìn nǚ
    wu3 jie4 qing1 xin4 nv3
wu chieh ch`ing hsin nü
    wu chieh ching hsin nü
 gokai shōshin nyo
women of pure faith who adhere to the five precepts

淸信士淸信女

see styles
qīng xìn shì qīng xìn nǚ
    qing1 xin4 shi4 qing1 xin4 nv3
ch`ing hsin shih ch`ing hsin nü
    ching hsin shih ching hsin nü
 shōshinshi shōshinnyo
men of pure faith and women of pure faith

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 7 results for "信女" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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