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Once in a Lifetime
This Japanese title can be translated as “for this time only,” “chance meeting,” “one meeting, one opportunity,” “never again,” or “one chance in a lifetime.”
The characters literally mean “one time one meeting” - of course, the Kanji characters have meaning far beyond a direct translation like this.
Some might use this proverb to talk of an opportunity that presents itself just once in your life. It could also be a one-and-only chance meeting with your true soul mate. An expression of any event that might happen once in a lifetime.
This is primarily a Japanese title, however, there is also a Traditional Chinese (and old Korean) version of this proverb. Just the last character is different.
The traditional form was used in Japan before WWII and in Korea prior to 1900. This title is somewhat known in China.
If you want the older traditional form, just click on the character to the right.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
一期一会 see styles |
ichigoichie いちごいちえ |
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授人以魚不如授人以漁 授人以鱼不如授人以渔 see styles |
shòu rén yǐ yú bù rú shòu rén yǐ yú shou4 ren2 yi3 yu2 bu4 ru2 shou4 ren2 yi3 yu2 shou jen i yü pu ju shou jen i yü |
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世 see styles |
shì shi4 shih sei / se せい |
life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble (counter) (1) counter for generations; (suffix noun) (2) {geol} epoch; (personal name) Toki yuga. An age, 1, 000th part of a kalpa.loka, the world. 世 originally meant a human generation, a period of thirty years; it is used in Buddhism both foryuga, a period of time ever flowing, andloka, the world, worldly, earthly. The world is that which is to be destroyed; it is sunk in the round of mortality, or transmigration; and conceals, or is a veil over reality. |
劫 see styles |
jié jie2 chieh kou; gou; kou / ko; go; ko こう; ごう; コウ |
to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1] (1) (こう, ごう only) {Buddh} kalpa (eon, aeon); (2) (kana only) {go} (usu. コウ) ko; position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones 刧 A kalpa, aeon, age; also translit. ka; 'a fabulous period of time, a day of Brahmā or 1, 000 Yugas, a period of four hundred and thirty-two million years of mortals, measuring the duration of the world; (a month of Brahmā is supposed to contain thirty such kalpas; according to the Mahābhārata twelve months of Brahmā constitute his year, and one hundred such years his lifetime; fifty years of Brahmā are supposed to have elapsed... ).' M. W. An aeon of incalculable time, therefore called a 大時節 great time-node. v. 劫波.; The three asaṃkhyeya kalpas, the three countless aeons, the period of a bodhisattva's development; also the past 莊嚴劫, the present 賢劫, and the future 星宿劫 kalpas. There are other groups. 三劫三千佛 The thousand Buddhas in each of the three kalpas. |
輩 辈 see styles |
bèi bei4 pei hai はい |
lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people group; gang; bunch fellows |
一世 see styles |
yī shì yi1 shi4 i shih issei / isse いっせい |
generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings) (1) generation; lifetime; (2) the age; the day; (n,n-suf) (3) the first (e.g. Elizabeth I); (4) issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); (female given name) Hitoyo one life |
一代 see styles |
yī dài yi1 dai4 i tai ichidai いちだい |
generation generation; lifetime; age; (female given name) Kazuyo A human lifetime; especially the lifetime of Śākyamuni on earth. |
一形 see styles |
yī xíng yi1 xing2 i hsing kazunari かずなり |
(personal name) Kazunari An appearance, a lifetime, the period of an individual existence, also 一期 and 一生涯. |
一生 see styles |
yī shēng yi1 sheng1 i sheng isshou / issho いっしょう |
all one's life; throughout one's life (n,adj-no,adv) (1) whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era; (can be adjective with の) (2) (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life; (given name) Motonaru All one's life, a whole life time. |
三戒 see styles |
sān jiè san1 jie4 san chieh sankai さんかい |
(1) (from the Analects of Confucius) three lifetime commandments (youth's femininity, middle-aged struggle, old-age gain); (2) {Buddh} three categories of precepts (lay, ordination, moral) The three sets of commandments, i.e. the ten for the ordained who have left home, the eight for the devout at home, and the five for the ordinary laity. |
三蘊 三蕴 see styles |
sān yùn san1 yun4 san yün san'un |
The three kinds of skandhas, aggregations, or combinations, into which all life may be expressed according to the 化地 or Mahīśāsakāh school: 一念蘊 combination for a moment, momentary existence; 一期蘊 combination for a period, e.g. a single human lifetime; 窮生死蘊 the total existence of all beings. |
世代 see styles |
shì dài shi4 dai4 shih tai sedai せだい |
for many generations; generation; era; age generation; (female given name) Yoyo A generation, a lifetime; the world. |
來生 来生 see styles |
lái shēng lai2 sheng1 lai sheng rai らい |
next life (female given name) Rai Future rebirth; the future life. |
先世 see styles |
xiān shì xian1 shi4 hsien shih senze |
A previous life, or world. |
前生 see styles |
qián shēng qian2 sheng1 ch`ien sheng chien sheng zenshou / zensho ぜんしょう |
previous life; previous incarnation {Buddh} (See 後生・ごしょう・1,今生・こんじょう) previous existence previous lifetime |
化法 see styles |
huà fǎ hua4 fa3 hua fa kehō |
Instruction in the Buddhist principles, as 化儀 is in practice, Tiantai in its 化法四教 divides the Buddha's teaching during his lifetime into the four periods of 藏, 通, 別, and 圓 Pitaka, Interrelated, Differentiated, and Complete, or All-embracing. |
半生 see styles |
bàn shēng ban4 sheng1 pan sheng hansei / hanse はんせい |
half a lifetime half a lifetime; half one's life; one's life so far |
壽命 寿命 see styles |
shòu mìng shou4 ming4 shou ming jumyou / jumyo じゅみょう |
life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine) (surname) Jumyou jīvita, life, length of days, age. |
壽限 寿限 see styles |
shòu xiàn shou4 xian4 shou hsien |
lifetime; length of life |
大化 see styles |
dà huà da4 hua4 ta hua taika たいか |
(hist) Taika era (645.6.19-650.2.15); (place-name) Taika The transforming teaching and work of a Buddha in one lifetime. |
天仙 see styles |
tiān xiān tian1 xian1 t`ien hsien tien hsien tensen てんせん |
immortal (esp. female); deity; fairy; Goddess; fig. beautiful woman (See 仙人・せんにん・1) heavenly immortal (in Taoism); (given name) Tensen deva-ṛṣi, or devas and rsis, or immortals. Nāgārjuna gives ten classes of ṛṣis whose lifetime is 100, 000 years, then they are reincarnated. Another category is fivefold: 天仙 deva-ṛṣis in the mountains round Sumeru: 神仙 spirit-ṛṣis who roam the air: 人仙 humans who have attained the powers of immortals; 地仙 earth ṛṣis, subterranean; 鬼仙 pretas, or malevolent ṛṣis. |
定命 see styles |
dìng mìng ding4 ming4 ting ming joumyou; teimei / jomyo; teme じょうみょう; ていめい |
(1) {Buddh} one's predestined length of life; (2) (ていめい only) destiny; fate Determined period of life; fate. |
宿植 see styles |
sù zhí su4 zhi2 su chih shukushoku |
to plant in a previous lifetime |
宿習 宿习 see styles |
sù xí su4 xi2 su hsi shuku shū |
The practices, habits, or deeds of or inherited from former existence. |
寿命 see styles |
jumyou / jumyo じゅみょう |
(1) lifespan; life; lifetime; (2) life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life; (surname) Sumi |
歸根 归根 see styles |
guī gēn gui1 gen1 kuei ken kikon |
to return home (after a lifetime's absence); to go back to one's roots to return to one's roots |
歿前 see styles |
botsuzen ぼつぜん |
(temporal noun) prior to death; during one's lifetime |
永世 see styles |
yǒng shì yong3 shi4 yung shih eisei / ese えいせい |
eternal; forever (1) eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence; (2) lifetime title holder (in shogi, go, etc.); (surname) Nagayo |
没前 see styles |
botsuzen ぼつぜん |
(temporal noun) prior to death; during one's lifetime |
法命 see styles |
fǎ mìng fa3 ming4 fa ming hō myō |
The wisdom-life of the dharmakāya, intp. as 法身慧命. The age or lifetime of a monk. |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Once in a Lifetime | 一期一會 一期一会 | ichigo ichie ichigoichie | yī qī yī huì yi1 qi1 yi1 hui4 yi qi yi hui yiqiyihui | i ch`i i hui ichiihui i chi i hui |
| 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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