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There are 11 total results for your great aspiration search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

雄心

see styles
xióng xīn
    xiong2 xin1
hsiung hsin
 yuushin; ogokoro / yushin; ogokoro
    ゆうしん; おごころ

More info & calligraphy:

Heroic Spirit / Great Ambition
great ambition; lofty aspiration
heroic spirit; brave heart; aspiration; ambition; (surname) Yūshin

冀求

see styles
 kikyuu / kikyu
    ききゅう
(noun/participle) longing; great desire; aspiration

壮志

see styles
 soushi / soshi
    そうし
great ambition; lofty aspiration; (given name) Takeshi

壯志


壮志

see styles
zhuàng zhì
    zhuang4 zhi4
chuang chih
great goal; magnificent aspiration

宏願


宏愿

see styles
hóng yuàn
    hong2 yuan4
hung yüan
great aspiration; great ambition

希求

see styles
xī qiú
    xi1 qiu2
hsi ch`iu
    hsi chiu
 motomu
    もとむ
(noun/participle) longing; great desire; aspiration; (female given name) Motomu
to strive for

雄志

see styles
 yuushi / yushi
    ゆうし
great ambition; lofty aspiration; (given name) Yūji

大乘心

see styles
dà shèng xīn
    da4 sheng4 xin1
ta sheng hsin
 daijō shin
The mind or heart of the Mahāyāna; seeking the mind of Buddha by means of Mahāyāna.

發大心


发大心

see styles
fā dà xīn
    fa1 da4 xin1
fa ta hsin
 hotsu daishin
to give rise to the great aspiration (for enlightenment)

發大乘心


发大乘心

see styles
fā dà shèng xīn
    fa1 da4 sheng4 xin1
fa ta sheng hsin
 hotsu daijō shin
gives rise to the great vehicle aspiration

Variations:
希求
冀求

see styles
 kikyuu / kikyu
    ききゅう
(noun, transitive verb) longing; great desire; aspiration

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

This page contains 11 results for "great aspiration" 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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