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There are 8 total results for your 滴水 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

滴水

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dī shuǐ
    di1 shui3
ti shui
 tekisui
    てきすい
water drop; dripping water
water dripping; (given name) Tekisui
a drop of water

上滴水

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 kamitarumizu
    かみたるみず
(place-name) Kamitarumizu

下滴水

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 shimotarumizu
    しもたるみず
(place-name) Shimotarumizu

滴水不漏

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dī shuǐ bù lòu
    di1 shui3 bu4 lou4
ti shui pu lou
lit. not one drop of water can leak out; watertight; rigorous (argument)

滴水不羼

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dī shuǐ bù chàn
    di1 shui3 bu4 chan4
ti shui pu ch`an
    ti shui pu chan
not diluted by one drop; hundred percent

滴水嘴獸


滴水嘴兽

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dī shuǐ zuǐ shòu
    di1 shui3 zui3 shou4
ti shui tsui shou
gargoyle (architecture)

滴水石穿

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dī shuǐ shí chuān
    di1 shui3 shi2 chuan1
ti shui shih ch`uan
    ti shui shih chuan
dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success; You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up.; Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty.

滴水穿石

see styles
dī shuǐ chuān shí
    di1 shui3 chuan1 shi2
ti shui ch`uan shih
    ti shui chuan shih

More info & calligraphy:

Dripping Water Penetrates Stone
dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success; You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up.; Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty.

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

This page contains 8 results for "滴水" 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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