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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


see styles
yān
    yan1
yen
 atsu
see 氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
To obstruct, stop; hoodwink.

閼伽


阏伽

see styles
è qié
    e4 qie2
o ch`ieh
    o chieh
 aka
    あか
{Buddh} water offering to Buddha (san: argha, arghya); holy water
arghya, v. 阿伽 scented water, or flowers in water as an offering, the word arghya meaning primarily something valuable, or presentable; hence 伽杯, a golden or metal vessel to hold such water; 伽花 the flower which float on its surface, etc.

閼氏


阏氏

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yān zhī
    yan1 zhi1
yen chih
formal wife of a Xiongnu chief during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

雍閼


雍阏

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yōng è
    yong1 e4
yung o
to intercept; to prevent the arrival of something

閼伽井


阏伽井

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è qié jǐng
    e4 qie2 jing3
o ch`ieh ching
    o chieh ching
 akai
    あかい
(surname) Akai
a well for holy water

閼伽器


阏伽器

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è qié qì
    e4 qie2 qi4
o ch`ieh ch`i
    o chieh chi
 agak i
vase for holy water

閼伽棚


阏伽棚

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è qié péng
    e4 qie2 peng2
o ch`ieh p`eng
    o chieh peng
 akadana
    あかだな
{Buddh} shelf for offerings (of water, flowers, etc.)
shelf for holy water

閼伽井嶽

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 akaidake
    あかいだけ
(personal name) Akaidake

閼伽井跡

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 akaiato
    あかいあと
(place-name) Akaiato

閼伽流山

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 akarusan
    あかるさん
(place-name) Akarusan

那伽閼剌樹那


那伽阏剌树那

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nà qié è là shùn à
    na4 qie2 e4 la4 shun4 a4
na ch`ieh o la shun a
    na chieh o la shun a
 Nakaarajuna
(or 那伽曷樹那) Nāgārjuna, 龍樹 the dragon-arjuna tree, or nāgakrośana, intp. probably wrongly as 龍猛 dragon-fierce. One of the 'four suns' and reputed founder of Mahāyāna (but see 阿 for Aśvaghoṣa), native of South India, the fourteenth patriarch; he is said to have cut off his head as an offering. 'He probably flourished in the latter half of the second century A. D.' Eliot, v. 龍樹. He founded the Mādhyamika or 中 School, generally considered as advocating doctrines of negation or nihilism, but his aim seems to have been a reality beyond the limitations of positive and negative, the identification of contraries in a higher synthesis, e. g. birth and death, existence and non-existence, eternal and non-eternal; v. 中論.

閼伽流山トンネル

see styles
 akarusantonneru
    あかるさんトンネル
(place-name) Akarusan Tunnel

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

This page contains 12 results for "閼" 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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