淨界

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Chinese

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to purify; to cleanse realm; abode
trad. (淨界)
simp. (净界)

Etymology

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Calque of French purgatoire or Italian purgatorio, first used by Wang Weike (王維克) in his translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy based on French and Italian texts [1948].

Pronunciation

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Noun

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淨界

  1. (religion, mythology, chiefly literary or poetic) purgatory

See also

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