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Mandarin Chinese information.
Old Wade-Giles romanization used only in Taiwan.
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Buddhist definition. Note: May not apply to all sects.
 Definition may be different outside of Buddhism.

There are 16 total results for your 文献 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

文献

see styles
 bunken
    ぶんけん
literature; books (reference); document; (personal name) Bunken

文獻


文献

see styles
wén xiàn
    wen2 xian4
wen hsien
document
See: 文献

文献学

see styles
 bunkengaku
    ぶんけんがく
philology

文献集

see styles
 bunkenshuu / bunkenshu
    ぶんけんしゅう
{comp} documentation

文獻學


文献学

see styles
wén xiàn xué
    wen2 xian4 xue2
wen hsien hsüeh
Philology; Historical Linguistics
See: 文献学

文献検索

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 bunkenkensaku
    ぶんけんけんさく
{comp} document retrieval

文献資料

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 bunkenshiryou / bunkenshiryo
    ぶんけんしりょう
(1) reference materials; references; bibliographical sources; (2) written materials; documents

一次文献

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 ichijibunken
    いちじぶんけん
{comp} primary document

二次文献

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 nijibunken
    にじぶんけん
{comp} secondary document

参照文献

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 sanshoubunken / sanshobunken
    さんしょうぶんけん
reference document

参考文献

see styles
 sankoubunken / sankobunken
    さんこうぶんけん
works cited; references

參考文獻


参考文献

see styles
cān kǎo wén xiàn
    can1 kao3 wen2 xian4
ts`an k`ao wen hsien
    tsan kao wen hsien
cited material; reference (to the literature); bibliography
See: 参考文献

派生文献

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 haseibunken / hasebunken
    はせいぶんけん
{comp} derivative document

文献の選択

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 bunkennosentaku
    ぶんけんのせんたく
{comp} selection of documents

参考文献一覧

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 sankoubunkenichiran / sankobunkenichiran
    さんこうぶんけんいちらん
bibliography

推奨文献目録

see styles
 suishoubunkenmokuroku / suishobunkenmokuroku
    すいしょうぶんけんもくろく
selected bibliography

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

This page contains 16 results for "文献" 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).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

Just because a word appears here does not mean it is appropriate for a tattoo, your business name, etc. Please consult a professional before doing anything stupid with this data.

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No warranty as to the correctness, potential vulgarity, or clarity is expressed or implied. We did not write any of these definitions (though we occasionally act as a contributor/editor to the CC-CEDICT project). You are using this dictionary for free, and you get what you pay for.

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