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Elephant in Chinese / Japanese...

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 xiàng
 zou
 
Elephant Scroll

象 is the single character that represents an elephant in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.

 huàn xiàng
 gen zou
Illusion Scroll

幻像 is a universal word for Illusion in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.

The first character means phantasm, vision, dream, illusion, apparition, or fantasy.

The second character means statue, picture, image, figure, portrait, shape, form, appearance, to be like, to resemble, to take after, to seem, or in rare/ancient context: an elephant.


象Note that the first character can be written without the left-side radical in Chinese. This form is shown to the right. Both forms are acceptable in Chinese but the character shown to the right is more likely to be read as "elephant."


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 xiàn xiàng
 genshou
Phenomenon Scroll

I must first say that 現象 is an odd thing to put on a wall scroll in Asian cultures. It won't make a lot of sense alone unless you have a special or personal meaning that you attach to it for yourself.

These two characters mean phenomenon in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Hanja. They can also be translated as “a happening,” depending on context.

The sum of these characters is a little different than their individual meanings. But I will break it down anyway...
The first character means present, existing, actual, apparent, now, or current.
The second character alone means pattern after, imitate, image, shape, sign (of the times), form, appearance, to be like, to resemble, to take after, to seem, or elephant.




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Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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xiàng
    xiang4
hsiang
 zou(p); zou / zo(p); zo
    ぞう(P); ゾウ

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Elephant
elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; shape; form; appearance; to imitate
elephant (Elephantidae spp.); (surname) Zou
gaja; hastin; also nāga; an elephant; v. 像 14.


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lóng
    long2
lung
 riyou / riyo
    りよう

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Dragon
Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon; (bound form) dinosaur
(out-dated kanji) (1) dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); (2) naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; (personal name) Riyou
A dragon, dragon-like, imperial; tr. for nāga, which means snake, serpent; also elephant, elephantine, serpent-like, etc., cf. 那.

釋迦牟尼


释迦牟尼

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shì jiā móu ní
    shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2
shih chia mou ni
 Shakamuni

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Shakyamuni / The Buddha
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
釋迦文 (釋迦文尼); 釋伽文 Śākyamuni, the saint of the Śākya tribe. muni is saint, holy man, sage, ascetic monk; it is: intp. as 仁 benevolent, charitable, kind, also as 寂默 one who dwells in seclusion. After '500 or 550' previous incarnations, Śākyamuni finally attained to the state of Bodhisattva, was born in the Tuṣita heaven, and descended as a white elephant, through her right side, into the womb of the immaculate Māyā, the purest woman on earth; this was on the 8th day of the 4th month; next year on the 8th day of the 2nd month he was born from her right side painlessly as she stood under a tree in the Lumbinī garden. For the subsequent miraculous events v. Eitel. also the 神通遊戲經 (Lalitavistara), the 釋迦如來成道記, etc. Simpler statements say that he was born the son of Śuddhodana, of the kṣatriya caste, ruler of Kapilavastu, and Māyā his wife; that Māyā died seven days later, leaving him to be brought up by her sister Prājapati; that in due course he was married to Yaśodharā who bore him a son, Rāhula; that in search of truth he left home, became an ascetic, severely disciplined himself, and finally at 35 years of age, under a tree, realized that the way of release from the chain of rebirth and death lay not in asceticism but in moral purity; this he explained first in his four dogmas, v. 四諦 and eightfold noble way 八正道, later amplified and developed in many sermons. He founded his community on the basis of poverty, chastity, and insight or meditation, ad it became known as Buddhism, as he became known as Buddha, the enlightened. His death was probably in or near 487 B.C., a few years before that of Confucius in 479. The sacerdotal name of his family is Gautama, said to be the original name of the whole clan, Śākya being that of his branch, v. 瞿, 喬.; his personal name was Siddhārtha, or Sarvārthasiddha, v. 悉.

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    mo2
mo
 ma
    ま
(bound form) evil spirit; devil; (prefix) supernatural; magical
(1) demon; devil; evil spirit; evil influence; (suffix noun) (2) (See 覗き魔) -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend; (can be adjective with の) (3) dreaded; terrible; awful; dreadful; (surname) Ma
魔羅 Māra, killing, destroying; 'the Destroyer, Evil One, Devil' (M.W.); explained by murderer, hinderer, disturber, destroyer; he is a deva 'often represented with a hundred arms and riding on an elephant'. Eitel. He sends his daughters, or assumes monstrous forms, or inspires wicked men, to seduce or frighten the saints. He 'resides with legions of subordinates in the heaven Paranirmita Vaśavartin situated on the top of the Kāmadhātu'. Eitel. Earlier form 磨; also v. 波 Pāpīyān. He is also called 他化自在天. There are various categories of māras, e.g. the skandha-māra, passion-māra, etc.

三獸


三兽

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sān shòu
    san1 shou4
san shou
 sanshū
The three animals— hare, horse, elephant— crossing a stream. The śrāvaka is like the hare who crosses by swimming on the surface; the pratyeka-buddha is like the horse who crosses deeper than the hare; the bodhisattva is like the elephant who walks across on the bottom. Also likened to the triyāna. 涅槃經 23, 27.

五逆

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wǔ nì
    wu3 ni4
wu ni
 gogyaku
    ごぎゃく
(1) {Buddh} five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha); (2) (hist) crime of killing one's master, father, grandfather, mother, or grandmother
pañcānantarya; 五無間業 The five rebellious acts or deadly sins, parricide, matricide, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, destroying the harmony of the sangha, or fraternity. The above definition is common both to Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna. The lightest of these sins is the first; the heaviest the last. II. Another group is: (1) sacrilege, such as destroying temples, burning sutras, stealing a Buddha's or a monk's things, inducing others to do so, or taking pleasure therein; (2) slander, or abuse of the teaching of śrāvaka s, pratyekabuddhas, or bodhisattvas; (3) ill-treatment or killing of a monk; (4) any one of the five deadly sins given above; (5) denial of the karma consequences of ill deeds, acting or teaching others accordingly, and unceasing evil life. III. There are also five deadly sins, each of which is equal to each of the first set of five: (1) violation of a mother, or a fully ordained nun; (2) killing a bodhisattva in a sangha; (5) destroying a Buddha's stūpa. IV. The five unpardonable sin of Devadatta who (1) destroyed the harmony of the community; (2) injured Śākyamuni with a stone, shedding his blood; (3) induced the king to let loose a rutting elephant to trample down Śākyamuni; (4) killed a nun; (5) put poison on his finger-nails and saluted Śākyamuni intending to destroy him thereby.

井河

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jǐng hé
    jing3 he2
ching ho
 igawa
    いがわ
(surname) Igawa
Like the well and the river', indicating the impermanence of life. The 'well ' refers to the legend of the man who running away from a mad elephant fell into a well; the 'river ' to a great tree growing on the river bank yet blown over by the wind.

伽耶

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qié yé
    qie2 ye2
ch`ieh yeh
    chieh yeh
 kaya
    かや
(female given name) Kaya; (place-name) Gaya (4th-6th century confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley of southern Korea)
伽邪; 伽闍 Gayā. (1) A city of Magadha, Buddhagayā (north-west of present Gaya), near which Śākyamuni became Buddha. (2) Gaja, an elephant. (3) 伽耶山 Gajaśirṣa, Elephant's Head Mountain; two are mentioned, one near "Vulture Peak", one near the Bo-tree. (4) kāya, the body.

四兵

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sì bīng
    si4 bing1
ssu ping
 shihei
catur-an.gabalakāya; the four divisions of a cakravarti's troops— elephant, hastikāya; horse, aśvakāya; chariot, rathakāya; and foot, pattikāya.

大象

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dà xiàng
    da4 xiang4
ta hsiang
 daizou / daizo
    だいぞう
elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
(given name) Daizou
large elephant

小象

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 kozou / kozo
    こぞう
young elephant; baby elephant

巨象

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 kyozou / kyozo
    きょぞう
gigantic elephant

恒河

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héng hé
    heng2 he2
heng ho
 hisaka
    ひさか
(personal name) Hisaka
恒水; 恒伽 (竸伽, 殑伽, or 強伽) Gaṅgā, the river Ganges, 'said to drop from the centre of Śiva's ear into the Anavatapta lake' (Eitel), passing through an orifice called variously ox's mouth, lion's mouth, golden elephant's mouth, then round the lake and out to the ocean on the south-east.

摸象

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mō xiàng
    mo1 xiang4
mo hsiang
 mozō
to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
The blind man who tried to describe an elephant by feeling it, v. Nirvāṇa Sūtra 32.

普賢


普贤

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pǔ xián
    pu3 xian2
p`u hsien
    pu hsien
 fugen
    ふげん
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
Samantabhadra (bodhisattva); Universal Compassion; (place-name) Fugen
Samantabhadra, Viśvabhadra; cf. 三曼 Universal sagacity, or favour; lord of the 理 or fundamental law, the dhyāna, and the practice of all Buddhas. He and Mañjuśrī are the right- and left-hand assistants of Buddha, representing 理 and 智 respectively. He rides on a white elephant, is the patron of the Lotus Sūtra and its devotees, and has close connection with the Huayan Sūtra. His region is in the east. The esoteric school has its own special representation of him, with emphasis on the sword indicative of 理 as the basis of 智. He has ten vows.

智象

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zhì xiàng
    zhi4 xiang4
chih hsiang
 chizō
prajñā, or Wisdom, likened to an elephant, a title of Buddha, famous monks, the Nirvāṇa-sūtra, the Prajñā-pāramitā sūtra, etc.

有手

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yǒu shǒu
    you3 shou3
yu shou
 aride
    ありで
(surname) Aride
To have a hand, or hands. hastin, possessing a hand. i. e. a trunk; an elephant.

狂象

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kuáng xiàng
    kuang2 xiang4
k`uang hsiang
    kuang hsiang
 kyōshō
A mad elephant, such is the deluded mind.

白芋

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 hasuimo
    はすいも
(kana only) giant elephant ear (species of taro, Colocasia gigantea)

白象

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bái xiàng
    bai2 xiang4
pai hsiang
 shirozou; hakuzou; byakuzou / shirozo; hakuzo; byakuzo
    しろぞう; はくぞう; びゃくぞう
white elephant; (given name) Byakuzou
The six-tusked white elephant which bore the Buddha on his descent from the Tuṣita heaven into Maya's womb, through her side. Every Buddha descends in similar fashion. The immaculate path, i. e. the immaculate conception (of Buddha).

蓮芋

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 hasuimo
    はすいも
(kana only) giant elephant ear (species of taro, Colocasia gigantea)

觀象


观象

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guān xiàng
    guan1 xiang4
kuan hsiang
 kanzō
Describing an elephant from sight rather than 摸觀, as would a blind man, from feeling it; i.e. immediate and correct knowledge.

調御


调御

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diào yù
    diao4 yu4
tiao yü
 jōgo
To tame and control as a master does a wild elephant or horse, or as the Buddha brings the passions of men under control, hence he is termed 調御丈夫 and 調御師 Puruṣa-damya-sārathi.

象牙

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xiàng yá
    xiang4 ya2
hsiang ya
 zouge / zoge
    ぞうげ
ivory; elephant tusk
ivory
Elephant's tusk, ivory.

象皮

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xiàng pí
    xiang4 pi2
hsiang p`i
    hsiang pi
 zō hi
elephant's skin

象腋

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xiàng yè
    xiang4 ye4
hsiang yeh
 zōeki
elephant-body (?)

象軍


象军

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xiàng jun
    xiang4 jun1
hsiang chün
 zōgun
Hastikāya, the elephant corps of an Indian army.

象馬


象马

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xiàng mǎ
    xiang4 ma3
hsiang ma
 zōme
elephant and horse

象駕


象驾

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xiàng jià
    xiang4 jia4
hsiang chia
 zōga
The elephant chariot, or riding forward, i.e. the eastward progress of Buddhism.

象鳥

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 zouchou / zocho
    ぞうちょう
(kana only) (See エピオルニス) aepyornis; elephant bird

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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Elephantzou / zoxiàng / xiang4 / xianghsiang
Illusion幻像
幻像 / 幻象
gen zou / genzou / gen zohuàn xiàng
huan4 xiang4
huan xiang
huanxiang
huan hsiang
huanhsiang
Phenomenon現象
现象
genshou / genshoxiàn xiàng
xian4 xiang4
xian xiang
xianxiang
hsien hsiang
hsienhsiang
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line.
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