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There are 8 total results for your 虛無 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

虛無


虚无

see styles
xū wú
    xu1 wu2
hsü wu
 komu
nothingness
Empty, non-existent, unreal, incorporeal, immaterial.

虛無僧


虚无僧

see styles
xū wú sēng
    xu1 wu2 seng1
hsü wu seng
 komu sō
komusō

虛無身


虚无身

see styles
xū wú shēn
    xu1 wu2 shen1
hsü wu shen
 komu shin
The immaterial Buddha-body, the spirit free from all limitations.

虛無主義


虚无主义

see styles
xū wú zhǔ yì
    xu1 wu2 zhu3 yi4
hsü wu chu i
nihilism

虛無之身


虚无之身

see styles
xū wú zhī shēn
    xu1 wu2 zhi1 shen1
hsü wu chih shen
 komu no shin
body of nothingness

虛無假設


虚无假设

see styles
xū wú jiǎ shè
    xu1 wu2 jia3 she4
hsü wu chia she
null hypothesis (statistics)

虛無縹緲


虚无缥缈

see styles
xū wú piāo miǎo
    xu1 wu2 piao1 miao3
hsü wu p`iao miao
    hsü wu piao miao
illusory; imaginary; fanciful

自然虛無身


自然虚无身

see styles
zì rán xū wú shēn
    zi4 ran2 xu1 wu2 shen1
tzu jan hsü wu shen
 jinen komu shin
A Buddha's spiritual or absolute body, his dharmakāya; also, those who are born in Paradise, i. e. who are spontaneously and independently produced there.

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

This page contains 8 results for "虛無" 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).



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