無常

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Chinese[edit]

not have
 
always; ever; often
always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant
trad. (無常)
simp. (无常)

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (25)
Final () (24) (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter mju dzyang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨo/ /d͡ʑɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/mio/ /d͡ʑiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/mio/ /d͡ʑiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muə̆/ /d͡ʑɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/mio/ /ʑiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/mĭu/ /ʑĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯u/ /ʑi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cháng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mou4 soeng4

Adjective[edit]

無常

  1. changeable; variable; sporadic; irregular; inconsistent

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Noun[edit]

無常

  1. (Chinese mythology) Wuchang, one or two deities in Chinese folk religion who seize the spirits of people to the Underworld
  2. (Buddhism) impermanence

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Verb[edit]

無常

  1. (euphemistic) to die; to pass away

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Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic (無常):

Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
じょう
Grade: 5
goon

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese 無常 (MC mju dzyang), in turn a translation of Pali anicca or Sanskrit अनित्य (anitya).[1]

First cited in a Japanese text in the 勝鬘経義疏 (Shōmangyō Gisho) of 611, one of the three texts grouped together as the 三経義疏 (Sangyō Gisho).[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

()(じょう) (mujōむじやう (muzyau)?-na (adnominal ()(じょう) (mujō na), adverbial ()(じょう) (mujō ni))

  1. [from 611] transient, impermanent, mutable

Inflection[edit]

Noun[edit]

()(じょう) (mujōむじやう (muzyau)?

  1. [from 611] transience, impermanence, mutability
  2. [from early 1200s] (figurative) death, the impermanence of one's life

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ 無常”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  5. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Vietnamese[edit]

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun[edit]

無常

  1. (Buddhism) chữ Hán form of vô thường (impermanence).