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There are 9 total results for your 天才 search in the dictionary.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

天才

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tiān cái
    tian1 cai2
t`ien ts`ai
    tien tsai
 tensai
    てんさい
talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted
(ant: 凡才) genius; prodigy; natural gift

天才児

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 tensaiji
    てんさいじ
child prodigy

天才的

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 tensaiteki
    てんさいてき
(adjectival noun) (See 天才) talented; gifted; prodigious; virtuoso; masterful

天才肌

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 tensaihada
    てんさいはだ
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (person) seeming like a genius; (having) the temperament of a prodigy

天才教育

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 tensaikyouiku / tensaikyoiku
    てんさいきょういく
gifted education; education of gifted children

天才バカボン

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 tensaibakabon
    てんさいバカボン
(work) Tensai Bakabon (manga, anime); (wk) Tensai Bakabon (manga, anime)

天才出自勤奮


天才出自勤奋

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tiān cái chū zì qín fèn
    tian1 cai2 chu1 zi4 qin2 fen4
t`ien ts`ai ch`u tzu ch`in fen
    tien tsai chu tzu chin fen
genius comes from hard effort; Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration (Thomas Edison)

天才と狂人は紙一重

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 tensaitokyoujinhakamihitoe / tensaitokyojinhakamihitoe
    てんさいときょうじんはかみひとえ
(expression) (proverb) there's but a fine line between genius and insanity

Variations:
馬鹿と天才は紙一重
バカと天才は紙一重

 bakatotensaihakamihitoe
    ばかとてんさいはかみひとえ
(expression) (proverb) there is but a fine line between genius and insanity

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

This page contains 9 results for "天才" 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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