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There are 6 total results for your 长夜 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

長夜


长夜

see styles
cháng yè
    chang2 ye4
ch`ang yeh
    chang yeh
 chouya; jouya; nagayo / choya; joya; nagayo
    ちょうや; じょうや; ながよ
long dark night; fig. long period of misery and oppression
(n,adv) (1) (See 短夜) long night; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) (ちょうや, じょうや only) all night; (female given name) Nagayo
The whole night, the long night of mortality or transmigration.

於其長夜


于其长夜

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yú qí cháng yè
    yu2 qi2 chang2 ye4
yü ch`i ch`ang yeh
    yü chi chang yeh
 okichōya
in its (their his) long night

漫漫長夜


漫漫长夜

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màn màn cháng yè
    man4 man4 chang2 ye4
man man ch`ang yeh
    man man chang yeh
endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering

生死長夜


生死长夜

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shēng sǐ cháng yè
    sheng1 si3 chang2 ye4
sheng ssu ch`ang yeh
    sheng ssu chang yeh
 shōji jōya
The long night of births-and-deaths.

長夜漫漫


长夜漫漫

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cháng yè màn màn
    chang2 ye4 man4 man4
ch`ang yeh man man
    chang yeh man man
endless night (idiom); fig. long suffering

長夜難明


长夜难明

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cháng yè nán míng
    chang2 ye4 nan2 ming2
ch`ang yeh nan ming
    chang yeh nan ming
lit. many nights under a harsh moon; long years of oppression (idiom)

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

This page contains 6 results for "长夜" 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

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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).



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