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There are 18 total results for your self reliance search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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xìn
    xin4
hsin
 shin
    しん

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Honesty / Fidelity
letter; mail; CL:封[feng1]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random
(1) honesty; sincerity; fidelity; (2) trust; reliance; confidence; (3) (religious) faith; devotion; (counter) (4) counter for received messages; (female given name) Yuki
śraddhā. Faith; to believe; belief; faith regarded as the faculty of the mind which sees, appropriates, and trusts the things of religion; it joyfully trusts in the Buddha, in the pure virtue of the triratna and earthly and transcendental goodness; it is the cause of the pure life, and the solvent of doubt. Two forms are mentioned: (1) adhimukti, intuition, tr. by self-assured enlightenment. (2) śraddhā, faith through hearing or being taught. For the Awakening of Faith, Śraddhotpāda, v. 起信論.

独立

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 dokuritsu
    どくりつ
(n,vs,vi) (1) independence; self-reliance; supporting oneself; being on one's own; (n,vs,vi) (2) independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; (n,vs,vi) (3) separation; isolation

自恃

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zì shì
    zi4 shi4
tzu shih

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Self-Reliance
self-esteem; self-reliance; overconfident; conceited

主体

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 chuche
    チュチェ
(1) (kana only) (See 主体思想) Juche (North Korean political ideology) (kor:); self-reliance; (2) (kana only) Juche (North Korean calendar) (kor:)

独歩

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 doppo; dokuho(ok)
    どっぽ; どくほ(ok)
(n,vs,vi) (1) walking alone; walking without assistance; (n,vs,vi) (2) self-reliance; being independent; (can be adjective with の) (3) unique; matchless; unparalleled; unequaled; unrivaled; unchallenged; peerless; (given name) Doppo

独行

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 dokkou / dokko
    どっこう
(n,vs,vi) (1) going alone; travelling alone; solitary journey; (n,vs,vi) (2) self-reliance; acting independently; doing by oneself; (personal name) Tokuyuki

甘え

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 amae
    あまえ
(See 甘える・あまえる) lack of self-reliance; depending on others

自主

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zì zhǔ
    zi4 zhu3
tzu chu
 jishu
    じしゅ
independent; to act for oneself; autonomous
(noun/participle) independence; autonomy; self-reliance

自助

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zì zhù
    zi4 zhu4
tzu chu
 jijo
    じじょ
self-service
self-help; self-reliance; (given name) Jisuke

自立

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zì lì
    zi4 li4
tzu li
 jiritsu
    じりつ
independent; self-reliant; self-sustaining; to stand on one's own feet; to support oneself
(n,vs,vi,adj-no) independence; self-reliance; (given name) Yoritatsu
self-sufficient

自立心

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 jiritsushin
    じりつしん
spirit of self-reliance; feeling of independence

五所依土

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wǔ suǒ yī tǔ
    wu3 suo3 yi1 tu3
wu so i t`u
    wu so i tu
 go shoe do
The five Buddha-kṣetra, or dependencies, the realms, or conditions of a Buddha. They are: (1) 法性土 his dharmakāya-kṣetra, or realm of his 'spiritual nature', dependent on and yet identical with the 眞如 bhutatathata; (2) 實 with its five immortal skandhas, i. e. his glorified body for his own enjoyment;. (3) 色相土 the land or condition of his self-expression as wisdom; (4) 他受用土 his saṃbhogakāya realm for the joy of others; (5) 變化土 the realm on which his nirmāṇakāya depends, that of the wisdom of perfect service of all, which results in his relation to every kind of condition.

独立独歩

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 dokuritsudoppo
    どくりつどっぽ
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (yoji) self-reliance; self-help

独立独行

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 dokuritsudokkou / dokuritsudokko
    どくりつどっこう
(noun - becomes adjective with の) self-reliance; acting according to one's own ideas and beliefs

独立自存

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 dokuritsujison
    どくりつじそん
(yoji) independence and self-reliance

自力更生

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zì lì gēng shēng
    zi4 li4 geng1 sheng1
tzu li keng sheng
 jirikikousei / jirikikose
    じりきこうせい
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom); self-reliance
(noun/participle) (yoji) working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help

自力本願

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 jirikihongan
    じりきほんがん
(noun - becomes adjective with の) salvation by one's own efforts; self-reliance

児童自立支援施設

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 jidoujiritsushienshisetsu / jidojiritsushienshisetsu
    じどうじりつしえんしせつ
children's self-reliance support facility
This page contains 18 results for "self reliance" 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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