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千里送鵝毛,禮輕人意重


千里送鹅毛,礼轻人意重

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qiān lǐ sòng é máo , lǐ qīng rén yì zhòng
    qian1 li3 song4 e2 mao2 , li3 qing1 ren2 yi4 zhong4
ch`ien li sung o mao , li ch`ing jen i chung
    chien li sung o mao , li ching jen i chung
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.

千里送鵝毛,禮輕情意重


千里送鹅毛,礼轻情意重

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qiān lǐ sòng é máo , lǐ qīng qíng yì zhòng
    qian1 li3 song4 e2 mao2 , li3 qing1 qing2 yi4 zhong4
ch`ien li sung o mao , li ch`ing ch`ing i chung
    chien li sung o mao , li ching ching i chung
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.

Variations:
祭礼(P)
祭禮(oK)

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 sairei / saire
    さいれい
(religious) festival

聖救度佛母二十一種禮讚經


圣救度佛母二十一种礼讚经

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shèng jiù dù fó mǔ èr shí yī zhǒng lǐ zàn jīng
    sheng4 jiu4 du4 fo2 mu3 er4 shi2 yi1 zhong3 li3 zan4 jing1
sheng chiu tu fo mu erh shih i chung li tsan ching
 Shō kudo butsumo nijūisshu raisan gyō
Twenty-One Hymns to the Rescuer Saint Tārā, Mother of Buddhas

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

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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.

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