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There are 10 total results for your 三位 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

三位

see styles
sān wèi
    san1 wei4
san wei
 sanmi; sani
    さんみ; さんい
(1) (esp. さんい) third place; third rank; (2) (esp. さんみ) third rank (in the Japanese court system); (3) {Christn} (esp. さんみ) Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; (surname) Mitsui
three stages

三位所

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 miisho / misho
    みいしょ
(surname) Miisho

従三位

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 jusanmi
    じゅさんみ
second grade of the third rank of honor (honour)

正三位

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 shousanmi / shosanmi
    しょうさんみ
senior grade of the third court rank

源三位

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 genzanmi
    げんざんみ
(surname) Genzanmi

第三位

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dì sān wèi
    di4 san1 wei4
ti san wei
third place

三位一体

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 sanmiittai / sanmittai
    さんみいったい

More info & calligraphy:

The Holy Trinity
(1) (yoji) {Christn} the Trinity; (2) (yoji) three parts; three components; three factors; three aspects

三位一體


三位一体

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sān wèi yī tǐ
    san1 wei4 yi1 ti3
san wei i t`i
    san wei i ti

More info & calligraphy:

The Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity; trinity
See: 三位一体

三位博士

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sān wèi bó shì
    san1 wei4 bo2 shi4
san wei po shih
the Magi; the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story

大弐三位

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 daininosanmi
    だいにのさんみ
(personal name) Daininosanmi

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

This page contains 10 results for "三位" 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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