多聞天
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Japanese[edit]
Kanji in this term | ||
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多 | 聞 | 天 |
た Grade: 2 |
もん Grade: 2 |
てん Grade: 1 |
goon |
Etymology[edit]
多聞 (“all hearing”) + 天 (“deva”), Middle Chinese 多聞天王 (MC ta mjun|mjunH then hjwang|hjwangH, literally “All-Hearing Heavenly King”), calque of Sanskrit वैश्रवण (vaiśravaṇa, literally “All Hearer”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- (Buddhism) Synonym of 毘沙門天 (Bishamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa”)
- Hypernym: 四天王
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 多 read as た
- Japanese terms spelled with 聞 read as もん
- Japanese terms spelled with 天 read as てん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms suffixed with 天
- Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Japanese terms calqued from Sanskrit
- Japanese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with three Han script characters
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