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There was no single entry for the characters you entered, so my system has broken them down into definitions for individual words or characters...
You searched for:
四界摄持
My system broke these into the following words, and cobbled together results for you:
(四界)(四)(界)(攝持)(攝)(持) 
Characters shown in parentheses are variants of the characters you searched for.
These results are a best guess using an algorithm that I wrote which may still have a few bugs.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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    si4
ssu
 suu / su
    スー
four; 4
(numeric) four (chi: sì); (personal name) Yotsu
catur. Four.

四界

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sì jiè
    si4 jie4
ssu chieh
 shikai
The four realms, idem 四大 earth, water, fire, and air.

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jiè
    jie4
chieh
 kai
    かい
(bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm
(suffix noun) (1) community; circles; world; (n,n-suf) (2) {biol} kingdom; (n,n-suf) (3) {geol} erathem; (suffix noun) (4) field (electrical); (5) border; boundary; division; (place-name, surname) Sakai
dhātu. 馱都 Whatever is differentiated; a boundary, limit, region; that which is contained or limited, e. g. the nature of a thing; provenance; a species, class, variety; the underlying principle; the root or underlying principles of a discourse.


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shè
    she4
she
 setsu
    せつ
(bound form) to take in; to absorb; to assimilate; to take (a photo); (literary) to conserve (one's health); (literary) to act for
(female given name) Setsu
To collect, gather together, combine, include; lay hold of; assist, act for or with; control, direct, attend to; translit. ś, śa.

攝持


摄持

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shè chí
    she4 chi2
she ch`ih
    she chih
 shōji
to gather and keep

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chí
    chi2
ch`ih
    chih
 ji
    じ
to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.); tie; (surname) Mochitoku
dhṛ; dhara. Lay hold of, grasp, hold, maintain, keep; control.

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

This page contains 6 results for "四界摄持" 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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No warranty as to the correctness, potential vulgarity, or clarity is expressed or implied. We did not write any of these definitions (though we occasionally act as a contributor/editor to the CC-CEDICT project). You are using this dictionary for free, and you get what you pay for.

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