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There are 7 total results for your 点灯 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

点灯

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 tentou / tento
    てんとう
(n,vs,vt,vi) (See 消灯) lighting (a lamp); turning on a light

點燈


点灯

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diǎn dēng
    dian3 deng1
tien teng
to light a lamp
To light a lamp.

点灯夫

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 tentoufu / tentofu
    てんとうふ
lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights

点灯管

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 tentoukan / tentokan
    てんとうかん
gas discharge lamp starter; fluorescent lamp starter; glow starter

ランプ点灯

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 ranputentou / ranputento
    ランプてんとう
{comp} lighting of a lamp

茅坑裡點燈


茅坑里点灯

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máo kēng lǐ diǎn dēng
    mao2 keng1 li3 dian3 deng1
mao k`eng li tien teng
    mao keng li tien teng
(slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死[zhao3 si3] via its near homophone 照屎[zhao4 shi3])

只許州官放火,不許百姓點燈


只许州官放火,不许百姓点灯

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zhǐ xǔ zhōu guān fàng huǒ , bù xǔ bǎi xìng diǎn dēng
    zhi3 xu3 zhou1 guan1 fang4 huo3 , bu4 xu3 bai3 xing4 dian3 deng1
chih hsü chou kuan fang huo , pu hsü pai hsing tien teng
only the official is allowed to light the fire; Gods may do what cattle may not; quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi

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

This page contains 7 results for "点灯" 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.

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