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There are 14 total results for your Family and Friends search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

親朋好友


亲朋好友

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qīn péng hǎo yǒu
    qin1 peng2 hao3 you3
ch`in p`eng hao yu
    chin peng hao yu

More info & calligraphy:

Family and Friends
friends and family; kith and kin

三想

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sān xiǎng
    san1 xiang3
san hsiang
 sansō
The three evil thoughts are the last, desire, hate, malevolence; the three good thoughts are 怨想 thoughts of (love to) enemies, 親想 the same to family and friends, 中人想 the same to those who are neither enemies nor friends, i.e. to all; v. 智度論 72.

共食

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 kyoushoku / kyoshoku
    きょうしょく
(1) communal eating of food that has been offered to a god; sacrificial meal; (2) eating together (with family, friends, etc.); communal dining

内祝

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 uchiiwai / uchiwai
    うちいわい
(1) gifts for close relatives or friends; (2) private or family celebration

身内

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 miuchi
    みうち
(1) relatives; one's family; (2) friends; members of the same organization; (3) followers; henchmen; (4) one's whole body; (surname) Miuchi

内祝い

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 uchiiwai / uchiwai
    うちいわい
(1) gifts for close relatives or friends; (2) private or family celebration

身うち

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 miuchi
    みうち
(1) relatives; one's family; (2) friends; members of the same organization; (3) followers; henchmen; (4) one's whole body

孤魂野鬼

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gū hún yě guǐ
    gu1 hun2 ye3 gui3
ku hun yeh kuei
wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom); person who has no family or friends to rely on

人生地不熟

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rén shēng dì bù shú
    ren2 sheng1 di4 bu4 shu2
jen sheng ti pu shu
to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom); in an unfamiliar place without friends or family

穿一條褲子


穿一条裤子

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chuān yī tiáo kù zi
    chuan1 yi1 tiao2 ku4 zi5
ch`uan i t`iao k`u tzu
    chuan i tiao ku tzu
(of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together; to be like family; to share the same view of things

Variations:
内祝い
内祝

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 uchiiwai / uchiwai
    うちいわい
(1) gift for close relatives or friends (given on the occasion of a family celebration); (2) family celebration; private celebration

一家人不說兩家話


一家人不说两家话

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yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huà
    yi1 jia1 ren2 bu4 shuo1 liang3 jia1 hua4
i chia jen pu shuo liang chia hua
lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom); fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help; people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)

Variations:
身内(P)
身うち

see styles
 miuchi
    みうち
(1) relatives; one's family; (2) friends; members of the same organization; (3) followers; henchmen; (4) one's whole body

Variations:
身内(P)
身うち(sK)

see styles
 miuchi
    みうち
(1) relatives; one's family; (2) friends; members of the same organization; (3) followers; henchmen; (4) one's whole body

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

This page contains 14 results for "Family and Friends" 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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