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There are 11 total results for your 仁義 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
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仁義


仁义

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rén yi
    ren2 yi5
jen i
 jingi
    じんぎ
affable and even-tempered
(1) humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue; (2) duty; (3) (perhaps derived from 辞儀) (See 辞儀・じんぎ・1,仁義を切る) formal greeting (between yakuza, street vendors, gamblers, etc.); (4) (gang's) moral code; (male given name) Miyoshi
humaneness and rightness

仁義理

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 nigiri
    にぎり
(personal name) Nigiri

久仁義

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 kuniyoshi
    くによし
(personal name) Kuniyoshi

仁義忠孝

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 jingichuukou / jingichuko
    じんぎちゅうこう
humanity, justice, loyalty, and filial piety

仁義道徳

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 jingidoutoku / jingidotoku
    じんぎどうとく
humanity and justice; benevolence and righteousness

仁義道德


仁义道德

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rén yì dào dé
    ren2 yi4 dao4 de2
jen i tao te
compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues; mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical

忠孝仁義

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 chuukoujingi / chukojingi
    ちゅうこうじんぎ
loyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice

仁義をきる

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 jingiokiru
    じんぎをきる
(exp,v5r) to make a formal salutation (between gamblers); to formally greet; to pay one's respects

仁義を切る

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 jingiokiru
    じんぎをきる
(exp,v5r) to make a formal salutation (between gamblers); to formally greet; to pay one's respects

仁義礼智信

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 jingireichishin / jingirechishin
    じんぎれいちしん
the five Confucian virtues (benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom, and sincerity)

Variations:
仁義を切る
仁義をきる

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 jingiokiru
    じんぎをきる
(exp,v5r) to make a formal salutation (between yakuza, street vendors, gamblers, etc.); to formally greet; to pay one's respects

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

This page contains 11 results for "仁義" 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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