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Simple Dictionary Definition |
質感 质感 see styles |
zhì gǎn zhi4 gan3 chih kan shitsukan しつかん |
realism (in art); sense of reality; texture; tactile quality feel (of a material); texture |
迷實 迷实 see styles |
mí shí mi2 shi2 mi shih meijitsu |
deluded in regard to the fundamental reality |
迷惑 see styles |
mí huo mi2 huo5 mi huo meiwaku / mewaku めいわく |
to puzzle; to confuse; to baffle (noun or adjectival noun) (1) trouble; bother; annoyance; nuisance; inconvenience; (noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru) (2) to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by) Deluded and confused, deceived in regard to reality. |
迷理 see styles |
mí lǐ mi2 li3 mi li meiri |
Deluded in regard to the fundamental principle, i.e. ignorant of reality; cf. 迷事. |
逆夢 see styles |
sakayume さかゆめ |
a dream which is contradicted by reality |
通惑 see styles |
tōng huò tong1 huo4 t`ung huo tung huo tsūwaku |
The two all-pervading deluders見 and 思 seeing and thinking wrongly i.e. taking appearance for reality. |
遠離 远离 see styles |
yuǎn lí yuan3 li2 yüan li enri; onri えんり; おんり |
to be far from; to keep away from (noun/participle) (1) {Buddh} separation by a great distance; (noun/participle) (2) (おんり only) detachment vivṛj; vivarjana; leave afar off, be far removed; absolute separation of unconditioned reality from the realm of phenomena. |
隨行 随行 see styles |
suí xíng sui2 xing2 sui hsing zuikou / zuiko ずいこう |
to accompany (surname) Zuikou complete (undefiled) accordance with reality |
顚倒 see styles |
diān dào dian1 dao4 tien tao |
viparyaya; error. Upside down, inverted; contrary to reality; to believe things to be as they seem to be, e.g. the impermanent to be permanent, the apparent ego to be real; cf. 七 and八顚倒. |
體智 体智 see styles |
tǐ zhì ti3 zhi4 t`i chih ti chih |
Fundamental wisdom which penetrates all reality. |
麻醉 see styles |
má zuì ma2 zui4 ma tsui |
anesomethingesia; to anesomethingetize; (fig.) to corrupt (sb's mind); to enervate; to numb the mind (to escape from harsh reality) |
テラハ see styles |
teraha テラハ |
(work) Terrace House (reality TV show) (abbreviation); (wk) Terrace House (reality TV show) (abbreviation) |
ホンマ see styles |
honma ホンマ |
(noun or adjectival noun) (kana only) (ksb:) truth; reality |
一實乘 一实乘 see styles |
yī shí shèng yi1 shi2 sheng4 i shih sheng ichijitsu jō |
The one method, of salvation, the 一實 School. |
一法界 see styles |
yī fǎ jiè yi1 fa3 jie4 i fa chieh ippokkai |
The bhūtatathatā considered in terms of mind and as a whole; a law-realm; a spiritual realm; a universe. |
一說部 一说部 see styles |
yī shuō bù yi1 shuo1 bu4 i shuo pu Issetsu bu |
Ekavyāvahārika 猗柯毘與婆訶利柯 or (Pali) Ekabyohāra 鞞婆訶羅 One of the 20 Hīnayāna schools, a nominalistic school, which considered things as nominal, i.e. names without any underlying reality; also styled 諸法但名宗 that things are but names. |
三時教 三时教 see styles |
sān shí jiào san1 shi2 jiao4 san shih chiao sanji kyō |
(三時教判) The three periods and characteristics of Buddha's teaching, as defined by the Dharmalakṣana school 法相宗. They are: (1) 有, when he taught the 實有 reality of the skandhas and elements, but denied the common belief in 實我 real personality or a permanent soul; this period is represented by the four 阿含經 āgamas and other Hīnayāna sūtras. (2) 空 Śūnya, when he negatived the idea of 實法 the reality of things and advocated that all was 空 unreal; the period of the 般若經 prajñā sūtras. (3) 中 Madhyama, the mean, that mind or spirit is real, while things are unreal; the period of this school's specific sūtra the 解深密經, also the 法華 and later sūtras. In the two earlier periods he is said to have 方便 adapted his teaching to the development of his hearers; in the third to have delivered his complete and perfect doctrine. Another division by the 空宗 is (1) as above; (2) the early period of the Mahāyāna represented, by the 深密經; (3) the higher Mahāyāna as in the 般若經. v. also 三敎. |
三般若 see styles |
sān bō rě san1 bo1 re3 san po je san hannya |
The three prajñās, or perfect enlightenments: (a) 實相般若 wisdom in its essence or reality; (b) 觀照般若 the wisdom of perceiving the real meaning of the last; (c) 方便般若 or 文字般若 the wisdom of knowing things in their temporary and changing condition. |
三論宗 三论宗 see styles |
sān lùn zōng san1 lun4 zong1 san lun tsung sanronshuu / sanronshu さんろんしゅう |
Three Treatise School (Buddhism) Sanron sect (of Buddhism) The Sanlun, Mādhyamika, or Middle School, founded in India by Nāgārjuna, in China by 嘉祥 Jiaxiang during the reign of 安帝 An Di, Eastern Jin, A.D. 397-419. It flourished up to the latter part of the Tang dynasty. In 625 it was carried to Japan as Sanron. After the death of Jiaxiang, who wrote the 三論玄義, a northern and southern division took place. While the Mādhyamika denied the reality of all phenomenal existence, and defined the noumenal world in negative terms, its aim seems not to have been nihilistic, but the advocacy of a reality beyond human conception and expression, which in our terminology may be termed a spiritual realm. |
三輪教 三轮教 see styles |
sān lún jiào san1 lun2 jiao4 san lun chiao sanrin kyō |
The three periods of the Buddha's teaching as defined by Paramārtha: (a) 轉法輪 the first rolling onwards of the Law-wheel, the first seven years' teaching of Hīnayāna, i.e. the 四諦 four axioms and 空 unreality; (b) 照法輪 illuminating or explaining the law-wheel, the thirty years' teaching of the 般若 prajñā or wisdom sūtras, illuminating 空 and by 空 illuminating 有 reality; (c) 持法輪 maintaining the law-wheel, i.e. the remaining years of teaching of the deeper truths of 空有 both unreality and reality. Also the three-fold group of the Lotus School: (a) 根本法輪 radical, or fundamental, as found in the 華嚴經 sūtra; (b) 枝末法輪 branch and leaf, i.e. all other teaching; until (c) 攝末歸本法輪 branches and leaves are reunited with the root in the Lotus Sutra, 法華經. |
不眞宗 see styles |
bù zhēn zōng bu4 zhen1 zong1 pu chen tsung fushin shū |
the teaching of non-reality |
事実上 see styles |
jijitsujou / jijitsujo じじつじょう |
(n,adj-no,adv) as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect |
事實上 事实上 see styles |
shì shí shàng shi4 shi2 shang4 shih shih shang |
in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto |
二法執 二法执 see styles |
èr fǎ zhí er4 fa3 zhi2 erh fa chih ni hosshū |
The two tenets in regard to things; of. 二我執, i.e. 倶生法執 the common or natural tendency to consider things as real; 分別法執 the tenet of the reality of things as the result of false reasoning and teaching. |
六種住 六种住 see styles |
liù zhǒng zhù liu4 zhong3 zhu4 liu chung chu rokushu jū |
The six Bodhisattva-stages in the Bodhisattva-bhumi sutra 菩薩地持經 are: (1) 種性住 the attainment of the Buddha-seed nature in the 十住; (2) 解行住 of discernment and practice in the 十行 and 十廻向; (3) 淨心住 of purity by attaining reality in the 初地見道; (4) 行道迹住 of progress in riddance of incorrect thinking, in the 二地 to the 七地; (5) 決定住 of powers of correct decision and judgment in the eighth and ninth 地; (6) 究竟住 of the perfect Bodhisattva stage in the tenth 地 and the 等覺位, but not including the 妙覺位 which is the Buddha-stage. |
写実性 see styles |
shajitsusei / shajitsuse しゃじつせい |
realism; reality |
分眞卽 see styles |
fēn zhēn jí fen1 zhen1 ji2 fen chen chi funshin soku |
idem 分證卽. |
化地部 see styles |
huà dì bù hua4 di4 bu4 hua ti pu Keji bu |
Mahīśāsakah, 磨醯奢婆迦部; 彌喜捨婆阿; 彌婆塞部, 正地部 an offshoot from the 說一切有部 or Sarvāstivāda school, supposed to have been founded 300 years after the nirvana. The name Mahisasakah is said to be that of a ruler who 'converted his land' or people; or 正地 'rectified his land'. The doctrines of the school are said to be similar to those of the 大衆部 Mahāsāṅghika; and to have maintained, inter alia, the reality of the present, but not of the past and future; also the doctrine of the void and the non-ego; the production of taint 染 by the five 識 perceptions; the theory of nine kinds of non-activity, and so on. It was also called 法無去來宗 the school which denied reality to past and future. |
十眞如 see styles |
shí zhēn rú shi2 zhen1 ru2 shih chen ju jū shinnyo |
The ten aspects of the bhūtatathatā or reality attained by a bodhisattva during his fifty-two stages of development, cf. 十地 and 十障, each of which is associated with one of these zhenru: (1) 遍行眞如 the universality of the zhenru; (2) 最勝眞如 its superiority over all else; (3) 流眞如 its ubiquity; (4) 無攝受眞如 its independence or self-containedness; (5) 無別眞如 subjective indifferentiation; (6) 無染淨眞如 above differences of impurity and purity; (7) 法無別眞如 objective indifferentiation; (8) 不增減眞如 invariable, i.e. can be neither added to nor taken from; (9) 智自在所依 the basis of all wisdom; (10) 業自在等所依眞如 and all power. The above are the 別教 group from the 唯識論 10. Another group, of the 圓教, is the same as the 十如是 q.v. |
反映論 反映论 see styles |
fǎn yìng lùn fan3 ying4 lun4 fan ying lun haneiron / haneron はんえいろん |
theory of reflection (in dialectic materialism), i.e. every perception reflects physical reality (See 模写説) reflection theory |
唯心論 唯心论 see styles |
wéi xīn lùn wei2 xin1 lun4 wei hsin lun yuishinron ゆいしんろん |
philosophy of idealism, the doctrine that external reality is a product of consciousness {phil} spiritualism; idealism; mentalism idealism |
唯識觀 唯识观 see styles |
wéi shì guān wei2 shi4 guan1 wei shih kuan yuishiki kan |
The three subjects of idealistic refection: that the ego and things are realities; that things are produced by cause and circumstance; that the bhūtatathatā is the only reality. Also called 唯識三性觀, cf. 三性. |
四法界 see styles |
sì fǎ jiè si4 fa3 jie4 ssu fa chieh shi hōkai |
四種法界 The four dharma-realms of the Huayan School: (1) 事法界 the phenomenal realm, with differentiation; (2) 理四法 noumenal with unity; (3) 理事無礙法界 both 理 noumenal and 事 phenomenal are interdependent; (4) 事事無礙法界 phenomena are also interdependent. |
大乘因 see styles |
dà shèng yīn da4 sheng4 yin1 ta sheng yin daijō in |
Mahāyāna "cause" is variously described as the mind of enlightenment 菩提心; or the reality behind all things 諸法實相. |
如實智 如实智 see styles |
rú shí zhì ru2 shi2 zhi4 ju shih chih nyojitsu chi |
Knowledge of reality, i. e. of all things whether whole or divided, universal or particular, as distinguished from their seeming; Buddha-omniscience. |
如是實 如是实 see styles |
rú shì shí ru2 shi4 shi2 ju shih shih nyoze jitsu |
this [kind of] truth (reality) |
如理師 如理师 see styles |
rú lǐ shī ru2 li3 shi1 ju li shih nyori shi |
A title of the Buddha, the Master who taught according to the truth, or fundamental law. |
安立諦 安立谛 see styles |
ān lì dì an1 li4 di4 an li ti anryūtai |
posited reality |
実際は see styles |
jissaiha じっさいは |
(exp,adv) in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth |
寂照慧 see styles |
jí zhào huì ji2 zhao4 hui4 chi chao hui jakushō e |
Buddha-wisdom which comprehends nirvāṇa reality and its functioning. |
實報土 实报土 see styles |
shí bào tǔ shi2 bao4 tu3 shih pao t`u shih pao tu jitsuhōdo |
The land of Buddha-reward in Reality free from all barriers, that of the bodhisattva, the third of the four 'lands' of Tiantai. A Buddha-kṣetra. |
實相印 实相印 see styles |
shí xiāng yìn shi2 xiang1 yin4 shih hsiang yin jissō in |
The seal or witness of reality, which is passed on from Buddha to Buddha. |
實相慧 实相慧 see styles |
shí xiàng huì shi2 xiang4 hui4 shih hsiang hui jissō e |
Wisdom in regard to reality. |
實相義 实相义 see styles |
shí xiāng yì shi2 xiang1 yi4 shih hsiang i jissō gi |
truth of the reality of all things |
實相花 实相花 see styles |
shí xiàng huā shi2 xiang4 hua1 shih hsiang hua jissō no hana |
實相風 The flower, or breeze, of Reality, i.e. the truth, or glory, of Buddhist teaching. |
實相觀 实相观 see styles |
shí xiàng guān shi2 xiang4 guan1 shih hsiang kuan jissō kan |
Insight into, or meditation on Reality. |
實相風 实相风 see styles |
shí xiàng fēng shi2 xiang4 feng1 shih hsiang feng jissō no kaze |
wind of reality |
實際上 实际上 see styles |
shí jì shàng shi2 ji4 shang4 shih chi shang |
in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice |
實際住 实际住 see styles |
shí jì zhù shi2 ji4 zhu4 shih chi chu jissai jū |
abode of the apex of reality |
心法身 see styles |
xīn fǎ shēn xin1 fa3 shen1 hsin fa shen shin hosshin |
心是法身 The mind is dharmakāya, 'tathāgata in bonds,' 在纏如來. |
所遍計 所遍计 see styles |
suǒ biàn jì suo3 bian4 ji4 so pien chi sho henge |
That by which the mind is circumscribed, i. e. impregnated with the false view that the ego and things possess reality. |
智慧觀 智慧观 see styles |
zhì huì guān zhi4 hui4 guan1 chih hui kuan chie kan |
One of the meditations of Guanyin, insight into reality. |
毘若底 毗若底 see styles |
pí ruò dǐ pi2 ruo4 di3 p`i jo ti pi jo ti binyatei |
vijñapti, information, report, representation; intp. as 識 knowledge, understanding, hence the 毘若底摩呾剌多 Vijñaptimātratā, or 唯識. Reality is nothing but representations or ideas. For 毘若南 v. 毘闍那. |
法如如 see styles |
fǎ rú rú fa3 ru2 ru2 fa ju ju hōnyonyo |
all things are absolute reality just as they are |
法念處 法念处 see styles |
fǎ niàn chù fa3 nian4 chu4 fa nien ch`u fa nien chu hō nenjo |
The position of insight into the truth that nothing has reality in itself; v. 四念處. |
法無我 法无我 see styles |
fǎ wú wǒ fa3 wu2 wo3 fa wu wo hō muga |
dharmanairātmya. Things are without independent individuality, i.e. the tenet that things have no independent reality, no reality in themselves. 法無我智 The knowledge or wisdom of the above. |
法界圖 法界图 see styles |
fǎ jiè tú fa3 jie4 tu2 fa chieh t`u fa chieh tu Hokkai zu |
Chart of the Realm of Reality |
法界宗 see styles |
fǎ jiè zōng fa3 jie4 zong1 fa chieh tsung hokkai shū |
the teaching of the reality-realm |
法界藏 see styles |
fǎ jiè zàng fa3 jie4 zang4 fa chieh tsang hokkai zō |
The treasury or storehouse or source of all phenomena, or truth. |
淨法界 净法界 see styles |
jīng fǎ jiè jing1 fa3 jie4 ching fa chieh jō hokkai |
The realm of pure dharma, the unsullied realm, i.e. the bhūtatathatā. |
滅法智 灭法智 see styles |
miè fǎ zhì mie4 fa3 zhi4 mieh fa chih meppōcchi |
The knowledge or wisdom of the dogma of extinction (of passion and reincarnation); one of the 八智 q. v. |
無所得 无所得 see styles |
wú suǒ dé wu2 suo3 de2 wu so te mushotoku むしょとく |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) having no income; (2) {Buddh} state of nonattachment; lack of attachment; not seeking anything Nowhere, or nothing obtainable, the immaterial universal reality behind all phenomena. |
無所觀 无所观 see styles |
wú suǒ guān wu2 suo3 guan1 wu so kuan musho kan |
The contemplation of the immaterial reality behind all phenomena. |
無生門 无生门 see styles |
wú shēng mén wu2 sheng1 men2 wu sheng men mushō mon |
The doctrine of reality as beyond birth, or creation, i.e. that of the bhūtatathatā; the gate or school of immortality. |
現実味 see styles |
genjitsumi げんじつみ |
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability |
現実感 see styles |
genjitsukan げんじつかん |
sense of reality |
現実界 see styles |
genjitsukai げんじつかい |
the real world; reality; the actual world |
理法身 see styles |
lǐ fǎ shēn li3 fa3 shen1 li fa shen ri hosshin |
The dharmakāya as absolute being, in contrast with 智法身 the dharmakāya as wisdom, both according to the older school being 無爲 noumenal; later writers treat 理法身 as noumenal and 智法身 as kinetic or active. |
由法爾 由法尔 see styles |
yóu fǎ ěr you2 fa3 er3 yu fa erh yu hōni |
according to reality |
眞實性 眞实性 see styles |
zhēn shí xìng zhen1 shi2 xing4 chen shih hsing shinjitsu shō |
nature of reality as it is |
眞實愚 眞实愚 see styles |
zhēn shí yú zhen1 shi2 yu2 chen shih yü shinjitsugu |
folly regarding reality |
眞實義 眞实义 see styles |
zhēn shí yì zhen1 shi2 yi4 chen shih i shinjitsu gi |
reality |
眞實行 眞实行 see styles |
zhēn shí xíng zhen1 shi2 xing2 chen shih hsing shinjitsu gyō |
practicing reality attaining to the true principle |
眞實際 眞实际 see styles |
zhēn shí jì zhen1 shi2 ji4 chen shih chi shinjitsu sai |
The region of reality, the bhūtatathatā. |
眞法界 see styles |
zhēn fǎ jiè zhen1 fa3 jie4 chen fa chieh shin hokkai |
The region of reality apart from the temporal and unreal. |
眞見道 眞见道 see styles |
zhēn jiàn dào zhen1 jian4 dao4 chen chien tao shin kendō |
The realization of reality in the absolute as whole and undivided, one of the 見道位. |
眞諦理 眞谛理 see styles |
zhēn dì lǐ zhen1 di4 li3 chen ti li shintairi |
reality |
真人秀 see styles |
zhēn rén xiù zhen1 ren2 xiu4 chen jen hsiu |
(TV) reality show |
真實性 真实性 see styles |
zhēn shí xìng zhen1 shi2 xing4 chen shih hsing |
authenticity; truthfulness; veracity; reality; validity |
真實感 真实感 see styles |
zhēn shí gǎn zhen1 shi2 gan3 chen shih kan |
the feeling that something is genuine; sense of reality; in the flesh |
究竟佛 see styles |
jiū jìng fó jiu1 jing4 fo2 chiu ching fo kukyō butsu |
The fundamental, ultimate, or supreme Buddha, who has complete comprehension of truth; Buddha in his supreme reality. |
空假中 see styles |
kōng jiǎ zhōng kong1 jia3 zhong1 k`ung chia chung kung chia chung kū ke chū |
Unreality, reality, and the middle or mean doctrine; noumenon, phenomenon, and the principle or absolute which unifies both. 空Unreality, that things do not exist in reality; 假 reality, that things exist though in "derived" or "borrowed" form, consisting of elements which are permanent; 中 the "middle" doctrine of the Madhyamaka School, which denies both positions in the interests of the transcendental, or absolute. 空以破一切法, 假以立一切法, 中以妙一切法 other 卽 空卽假卽中. śūnya (universality) annihilates all relativities, particularity establishes all relativities, the middle path transcends and unites all relativities. Tiantai asserts that there is no contradiction in them and calls them a unity, the one including the other 即空即假即中. |
第一義 第一义 see styles |
dì yī yì di4 yi1 yi4 ti i i daiichigi / daichigi だいいちぎ |
(1) primary significance; primary importance; first principle; (2) {Buddh} absolute truth; ultimate truth The supreme, or fundamental meaning, the supreme reality, i. e. enlightenment. |
羅摩伽 罗摩伽 see styles |
luó mó qié luo2 mo2 qie2 lo mo ch`ieh lo mo chieh ramaga |
is tr. as 入法界 entering the realm of the law. |
苦法智 see styles |
kǔ fǎ zhì ku3 fa3 zhi4 k`u fa chih ku fa chih kuhocchi |
The knowledge of the law of suffering and the way of release, one of the 八智. 苦法智忍 q. v. |
蛇繩麻 蛇绳麻 see styles |
shé shéng má she2 sheng2 ma2 she sheng ma ja jōma |
The seeming snake, which is only a rope, and in reality hemp. |
衆生想 众生想 see styles |
zhòng shēng xiǎng zhong4 sheng1 xiang3 chung sheng hsiang shujō sō |
The false notion that all beings have reality. |
衆生相 众生相 see styles |
zhòng shēng xiàng zhong4 sheng1 xiang4 chung sheng hsiang shujō sō |
衆生見 The concept that all beings have reality. |
見光死 见光死 see styles |
jiàn guāng sǐ jian4 guang1 si3 chien kuang ssu |
(lit.) to wither in the light of day; (fig.) the bubble bursts as the reality becomes apparent (esp. of a much-anticipated first meeting with sb); (of stocks) just as the favorable news is officially published, the stock price falls |
見諦惑 见谛惑 see styles |
jiàn dì huò jian4 di4 huo4 chien ti huo kentai waku |
delusion in regard to seeing reality |
見顚倒 见顚倒 see styles |
jiàn diān dào jian4 dian1 dao4 chien tien tao ken tendō |
To see things upside down; to regard illusion as reality. |
說假部 说假部 see styles |
shuō jiǎ bù shuo1 jia3 bu4 shuo chia pu Sekke bu |
The Prajñāptivādinaḥ school, a branch of the Mahāsāṅghikaḥ, which took the view of phenomenality and reality, ? founded on the Prajñāpti-śāstra. |
超現実 see styles |
chougenjitsu / chogenjitsu ちょうげんじつ |
hyper reality; surrealism |
迷理惑 see styles |
mí lǐ huò mi2 li3 huo4 mi li huo meiri waku |
afflictions of error in regard to principles of reality |
道法智 see styles |
dào fǎ zhì dao4 fa3 zhi4 tao fa chih dōhotchi |
The wisdom attained by them; the wisdom which rids one of false views in regard to mārga, or the eightfold noble path. |
達眞如 达眞如 see styles |
dá zhēn rú da2 zhen1 ru2 ta chen ju datsu shinnyo |
to understand reality |
金剛定 金刚定 see styles |
jīn gāng dìng jin1 gang1 ding4 chin kang ting kongō jō |
vajrasamādhi, 金剛喩定; 金剛三昧; 金剛滅定 diamond meditation, that of the last stage of the bodhisattva, characterized by firm, indestructible knowledge, penetrating all reality; attained after all remains of illusion have been cut off. |
金剛慧 金刚慧 see styles |
jīn gāng huì jin1 gang1 hui4 chin kang hui kongō e |
Diamond wisdom, which by its reality overcomes all illusory knowledge. |
金剛觀 金刚观 see styles |
jīn gāng guān jin1 gang1 guan1 chin kang kuan kongō kan |
The diamond insight or vision which penetrates into reality. |
離垢眼 离垢眼 see styles |
lí gòu yǎn li2 gou4 yan3 li kou yen riku gen |
To abandon the eye of impurity, or contamination, and attain the eye which beholds truth and reality. |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 100 results for "Reality" 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
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