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This is the Chinese name for the country of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).
This is occasionally used in Japanese (especially in historic documents) with the same meaning (though they also have a Katakana name for Myanmar/Burma).
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Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
緬甸 缅甸 see styles |
miǎn diàn mian3 dian4 mien tien menden; biruma(gikun) めんでん; ビルマ(gikun) |
More info & calligraphy: Myanmar(obsolete) Burma; (place-name) Burma |
甘巴里 see styles |
gān bā lǐ gan1 ba1 li3 kan pa li |
More info & calligraphy: Gambari |
緬 缅 see styles |
miǎn mian3 mien men めん |
distant; remote; detailed (abbreviation) (See 緬甸) Myanmar; Burma; (place-name) Haru |
勃固 see styles |
bó gù bo2 gu4 po ku |
Pegu city in south Myanmar (Burma) |
小乘 see styles |
xiǎo shèng xiao3 sheng4 hsiao sheng shōjō |
Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle; Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras; also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2] Hīnayāna 希那衍. The small, or inferior wain, or vehicle; the form of Buddhism which developed after Śākyamuni's death to about the beginning of the Christian era, when Mahāyāna doctrines were introduced. It is the orthodox school and more in direct line with the Buddhist succession than Mahāyānism which developed on lines fundamentally different. The Buddha was a spiritual doctor, less interested in philosophy than in the remedy for human misery and perpetual transmigration. He "turned aside from idle metaphysical speculations; if he held views on such topics, he deemed them valueless for the purposes of salvation, which was his goal" (Keith). Metaphysical speculations arose after his death, and naturally developed into a variety of Hīnayāna schools before and after the separation of a distinct school of Mahāyāna. Hīnayāna remains the form in Ceylon, Burma, and Siam, hence is known as Southern Buddhism in contrast with Northern Buddhism or Mahāyāna, the form chiefly prevalent from Nepal to Japan. Another rough division is that of Pali and Sanskrit, Pali being the general literary language of the surviving form of Hīnayāna, Sanskrit of Mahāyāna. The term Hīnayāna is of Mahāyānist origination to emphasize the universalism and altruism of Mahāyāna over the narrower personal salvation of its rival. According to Mahāyāna teaching its own aim is universal Buddhahood, which means the utmost development of wisdom and the perfect transformation of all the living in the future state; it declares that Hīnayāna, aiming at arhatship and pratyekabuddhahood, seeks the destruction of body and mind and extinction in nirvāṇa. For arhatship the 四諦Four Noble Truths are the foundation teaching, for pratyekabuddhahood the 十二因緣 twelve-nidānas, and these two are therefore sometimes styled the two vehicles 二乘. Tiantai sometimes calls them the (Hīnayāna) Tripiṭaka school. Three of the eighteen Hīnayāna schools were transported to China: 倶舍 (Abhidharma) Kośa; 成實 Satya-siddhi; and the school of Harivarman, the律 Vinaya school. These are described by Mahāyānists as the Buddha's adaptable way of meeting the questions and capacity of his hearers, though his own mind is spoken of as always being in the absolute Mahāyāna all-embracing realm. Such is the Mahāyāna view of Hīnayāna, and if the Vaipulya sūtras and special scriptures of their school, which are repudiated by Hīnayāna, are apocryphal, of which there seems no doubt, then Mahāyāna in condemning Hīnayāna must find other support for its claim to orthodoxy. The sūtras on which it chiefly relies, as regards the Buddha, have no authenticity; while those of Hīnayāna cannot be accepted as his veritable teaching in the absence of fundamental research. Hīnayāna is said to have first been divided into minority and majority sections immediately after the death of Śākyamuni, when the sthāvira, or older disciples, remained in what is spoken of as "the cave", some place at Rājagṛha, to settle the future of the order, and the general body of disciples remained outside; these two are the first 上坐部 and 大衆部 q. v. The first doctrinal division is reported to have taken place under the leadership of the monk 大天 Mahādeva (q.v.) a hundred years after the Buddha's nirvāṇa and during the reign of Aśoka; his reign, however, has been placed later than this by historians. Mahādeva's sect became the Mahāsāṅghikā, the other the Sthāvira. In time the two are said to have divided into eighteen, which with the two originals are the so-called "twenty sects" of Hīnayāna. Another division of four sects, referred to by Yijing, is that of the 大衆部 (Arya) Mahāsaṅghanikāya, 上座部 Āryasthavirāḥ, 根本說一切有部 Mūlasarvāstivādaḥ, and 正量部 Saṃmatīyāḥ. There is still another division of five sects, 五部律. For the eighteen Hīnayāna sects see 小乘十八部. |
撣邦 掸邦 see styles |
shàn bāng shan4 bang1 shan pang |
Shan state of east Myanmar (Burma) |
畹町 see styles |
wǎn dīng wan3 ding1 wan ting |
Wanding town Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州|德宏傣族景颇族自治州, Yunnan, on border with Myanmar (Burma) |
老街 see styles |
lǎo jiē lao3 jie1 lao chieh |
Lao Cai, Vietnam; Laokai or Laukkai, Burma (Myanmar) |
蒲甘 see styles |
pú gān pu2 gan1 p`u kan pu kan |
Bagan (Pagan), ancient capital of Myanmar (Burma) |
訪緬 see styles |
houmen / homen ほうめん |
(n,vs,vi) visit to Myanmar; visit to Burma |
ヒルマ see styles |
biruma ビルマ |
(See ミャンマー) Burma; (place-name) Burmah; Bilma; Vilma |
勃固河 see styles |
bó gù hé bo2 gu4 he2 po ku ho |
Pegu River of south central Myanmar (Burma) |
史迪威 see styles |
shǐ dí wēi shi3 di2 wei1 shih ti wei |
Joseph Stilwell (1883-1946), commander of US forces in China, Burma and India in World War II |
德宏州 see styles |
dé hóng zhōu de2 hong2 zhou1 te hung chou |
abbr. for 德宏傣族景頗族自治州|德宏傣族景颇族自治州, Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture in west Yunnan surrounded on three sides by Myanmar (Burma) |
曼德勒 see styles |
màn dé lè man4 de2 le4 man te le |
Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma) |
畹町市 see styles |
wǎn dīng shì wan3 ding1 shi4 wan ting shih |
Wanding town Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州|德宏傣族景颇族自治州, Yunnan, on border with Myanmar (Burma) |
蒙巴頓 蒙巴顿 see styles |
méng bā dùn meng2 ba1 dun4 meng pa tun |
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg); Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA. |
錫當河 锡当河 see styles |
xī dāng hé xi1 dang1 he2 hsi tang ho |
Sittang River of central Myanmar (Burma), between Irrawaddy and Salween rivers |
ネピドー see styles |
nepidoo ネピドー |
(place-name) Nay Pyi Daw (Burma); Naypyidaw |
伊洛瓦底 see styles |
yī luò wǎ dǐ yi1 luo4 wa3 di3 i lo wa ti |
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwaddy River, the main river of Myanmar (Burma) |
勃固山脈 勃固山脉 see styles |
bó gù shān mài bo2 gu4 shan1 mai4 po ku shan mai |
Pegu Yoma (mountain range) of south central Myanmar (Burma), separating Irrawaddy and Sittang basins |
撣邦高原 掸邦高原 see styles |
shàn bāng gāo yuán shan4 bang1 gao1 yuan2 shan pang kao yüan |
Shan plateau of east Myanmar (Burma) |
泰緬鉄道 see styles |
taimentetsudou / taimentetsudo たいめんてつどう |
Thai-Burma Railway |
緬甸聯邦 缅甸联邦 see styles |
miǎn diàn lián bāng mian3 dian4 lian2 bang1 mien tien lien pang |
Union of Myanmar, official name of Burma 1998-2010 |
若開山脈 若开山脉 see styles |
ruò kāi shān mài ruo4 kai1 shan1 mai4 jo k`ai shan mai jo kai shan mai |
Arakan Yoma, mountain range in western Myanmar (Burma) |
莫塔馬灣 莫塔马湾 see styles |
mò tǎ mǎ wān mo4 ta3 ma3 wan1 mo t`a ma wan mo ta ma wan |
Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar (Burma) |
蒲甘王朝 see styles |
pú gān wáng cháo pu2 gan1 wang2 chao2 p`u kan wang ch`ao pu kan wang chao |
Bagan (Pagan) Dynasty of Myanmar (Burma), 1044-1287 |
伊洛瓦底江 see styles |
yī luò wǎ dǐ jiāng yi1 luo4 wa3 di3 jiang1 i lo wa ti chiang |
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwaddy River, the main river of Myanmar (Burma) |
伊賞那補羅 伊赏那补罗 see styles |
yī shǎng nà bǔ luó yi1 shang3 na4 bu3 luo2 i shang na pu lo Ishōnahora |
IIśānapura. An ancient kingdom in Burma. Eitel. Cf. 伊沙那. |
阿拉乾山脈 阿拉干山脉 see styles |
ā lā gān shān mài a1 la1 gan1 shan1 mai4 a la kan shan mai |
Arakan Yoma, mountain range in western Myanmar (Burma) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Myanmar | 緬甸 缅甸 | men den / menden | miǎn diàn mian3 dian4 mian dian miandian | mien tien mientien |
Myanmar | ミャンマー | myan maa / myanmaa / myan ma | ||
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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