法螺
Chinese
law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.) |
aquatic snail | ||
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simp. and trad. (法螺) |
法 | 螺 |
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Etymology
Calque of Sanskrit धर्म शङ्ख (dharma śaṅkha, “conch shell of religion; conch of the law”). Tibetan equivalent is ཆོས་དུང (chos dung).
Pronunciation
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Noun
(deprecated template usage) 法螺
- (Buddhism) conch shell used as a Buddhist trumpet
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- (Buddhism) power and command of Buddhist teaching; doctrines of Buddhism
- (figurative) boasting; bragging; exaggeration; overstatement
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Descendants
Sino-Xenic (法螺):
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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法 | 螺 |
ほう > ほ Grade: 4 |
ら Jinmeiyō |
on'yomi |
Noun
Derived terms
Categories:
- Chinese terms calqued from Sanskrit
- Chinese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Chinese lemmas
- Chinese nouns
- zh:Buddhism
- Japanese terms spelled with 法 read as ほう
- Japanese terms spelled with 螺 read as ら
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji