Free Chinese & Japanese Online Dictionary

If you enter English words, search is Boolean mode:
Enter fall to get just entries with fall in them.
Enter fall* to get results including "falling" and "fallen".
Enter +fall -season -autumn to make sure fall is included, but not entries with autumn or season.

Key:

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

There are 6 total results for your 放下 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

放下

see styles
fàng xià
    fang4 xia4
fang hsia
 houka; houge / hoka; hoge
    ほうか; ほうげ
to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)
(noun/participle) (1) (archaism) {Buddh} discarding; abandoning; (noun/participle) (2) (ほうか only) variety of street performance from the Middle Ages; (noun/participle) (3) (ほうげ only) casting off one's attachments (in Zen)
To put down, let down, lay down.

放下着

see styles
fàng xià zhāo
    fang4 xia4 zhao1
fang hsia chao
 hōge chaku
lit. putting it down

放下包袱

see styles
fàng xia bāo fu
    fang4 xia5 bao1 fu5
fang hsia pao fu
to lay down a heavy burden

放下身段

see styles
fàng xià shēn duàn
    fang4 xia4 shen1 duan4
fang hsia shen tuan
(idiom) to get off one's high horse; to dispense with posturing (and adopt a more humble or empathetic attitude)

放下屠刀,立地成佛

see styles
fàng xià tú dāo , lì dì chéng fó
    fang4 xia4 tu2 dao1 , li4 di4 cheng2 fo2
fang hsia t`u tao , li ti ch`eng fo
    fang hsia tu tao , li ti cheng fo
lay down butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation; to repent and be absolved of one's crimes

端起碗吃肉,放下筷子罵娘


端起碗吃肉,放下筷子骂娘

see styles
duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng
    duan1 qi3 wan3 chi1 rou4 , fang4 xia4 kuai4 zi5 ma4 niang2
tuan ch`i wan ch`ih jou , fang hsia k`uai tzu ma niang
    tuan chi wan chih jou , fang hsia kuai tzu ma niang
lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom); fig. to complain despite being privileged; to be ungrateful for what one has been given

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

This page contains 6 results for "放下" 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.

We do offer Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Services. We'll also be happy to help you translate something for other purposes.

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.

The following titles are just to help people who are searching for an Asian dictionary to find this page.

Japanese Kanji Dictionary

Free Asian Dictionary

Chinese Kanji Dictionary

Chinese Words Dictionary

Chinese Language Dictionary

Japanese Chinese Dictionary