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This is not a definitive Chinese dictionary, but simply my own resource for looking up words I come across in my work. Maybe it will be useful to others.
CHINESE WORDS AND PHRASES
- anxin (Chinese)—tranquility of mind
- Baopuzi (Chinese)—master encompassing simplicity
- Baopuzi neipian (Chinese)—internal [esoteric] treatise (title of a work by Gé Hóng).
- Baopuzi waipian (Chinese)—external (exoteric) treatise of the Master who embodies simplicity (title of a work by Gé Hóng).
- ben (Chinese)—essential
- benwu zong (Chinese)—school of original non-being (?), original non-being (?)
- benxing (Chin.)—original nature.
- bo (Chinese)—along with “hun”, one of two souls in man. The “bo” soaks into the earth at death.
- bo (Chin.)—universality
- boai (Chinese)—universal love.
- chuanshen (Chinese)—spiritual message
- chang (Chinese)—ordinary stablility or permanence.
- cheng (Chinese)—internal truth, true; ultimate truth
- chuo (Chinese)—troublesome awkwardness
- dao (Chinese)—nature
- dao-jia (Chinese)—school of the way
- Daodejing (Chinese)—book of the way and virtue (title of a work of Laoze)
- daojiao (Chinese)—religious taoism
- datong (Chinese)—great whole
- Daxue (Chinese)—great doctrine (a book, part of the Four Confucian Books).
- de (Chinese)principles or virtues, virtue
- dian (Chinese)—a dot.
- fa (Chin.)—positive law
- gé (Chinese)—investigation, study
- géwù (Chinese)—investigation of things (method used in Chinese philosophy).
- géyì (Chinese)—investigation of meaning—method of analogy used in Chinese philosophy.
- guai (Chinese)—wild eccentricity
- gui (Chinese)—spirits of dead people
- guĭshĕn (Chinese)—spirits, deities, ghosts: HTML: guĭshĕn
- haoranzhi qi (Chinese)—strongest force.
- heng (Chinese)—horizontal line.
- hua (Chinese)—transformation(s ?)
- hun (Chinese)—along with “bo”, one of two souls in man, the “hun” goes on to become a guardian spirit who must be appeased by ancestor worship.
- hundun (Chinese)—chaotic fullness.
- jia (Chinese)—philosophical school
- jainai (Chin.)—mutual universal love
- jiao (Chinese)—dexterity; religious (interpretation?)
- jindan (Chinese)—gold elixir
- jing (Chinese)—essence.
- li (Chinese)—principle; passive, eternal, constant principle of things.
- li (Chin.)—rightness (a virtue)
- liangzhi (Chinese)—internal and intuitively accessible acquaintance with the good; the first, original substance of the mind; the ultimate truth of subjectivity
- Liji (Chinese)—Book of Ritual (title)
- liuchang (Chinese)—six virtues.
- Lunyu (Chin.)—Confucian dialogues (title)
- miao (Chinese)—excellent.
- mijiao (Chinese)—Tantrism
- ming (Chinese)—enlightenment; name(s ?)
- mingjia (Chinese)—school of names
- mo (Chinese)—outer frame of a thing
- na (Chinese)—downward slash (like breaking waves and rumbling thunder, flashing lightning).
- Nanhua Chenjiang (Chinese)—True Book of the Southern Flower (title of a work by Zhuangzi)
- neng (Chinese)—skilled, able.
- pie (Chinese)—downward swoop, like a rhinoceros horn or elephant tusk.
- pu (Chinese)—complete simplicity
- qi (Chinese)—force, matter, energy and matter at the same time, material force.
- Qi miao (Chinese)—seven mysteries.
- qing (Chinese)—emotion
- qizhi zhi xing (Chin.)—physical nature
- qizong (Chinese)—seven Buddhist schools
- ren (Chinese)mdash;the ability to be human (humanity, to be human, humane?)
- Sanxuan (Chinese)—three books (a title)
- shen (Chinese)—divine, inspiring; deities, dwellers of heaven.
- sheng (Chinese)—rudeness.
- shi (Chin.)—power, authority
- shu (Chinese)—well-arrange correctness? being benevolent?
- shu (Chinese)—the art of administration
- Sishi’er zhang jing (Chinese)—Sutras in 42 chapters
- Sishu (Chinese)—Four Confucian Books (title)
- su (Chinese)—rough vulgarity.
- Taipingjing (Chinese)—book of the greatest peace
- taiqing (Chinese)—supreme purity
- taiji (Chinese)—the great term, the great terminal point.
- taiyi (Chinese)—highest unity; primeval unity
- ti (Chinese)—brushstroke (downward hook), like the the falling trunk of a pine tree with solid roots.
- ti (Chin.)—essence
- tianli (Chinese)—the principle of cosmic unity.
- ti-yong (Chin.)—substance and function (neo-Confucian method)
- wan (Chinese)—angled curve (like sinews and joints of a strong cross bow)
- wenrenhua, wenrenyue (Chinese)—the art of Confucian scholars.
- wu (Chinese)—thing; non-being; things
- wù (Chine)—thing, individual thing (may be the same as “wu”).
- wuwei (Chinese)—non-action
- xian (Chinese)—immortality
- xianren (Chinese)—seat of the immortals
- xie (Chinese)—showed, manifested, exhibited.
- xin (Chinese)—mind, heart-mind.
- xing (Chinese)—nature; human nature.
- xinshen (Chinese)—to mature (?), mature (?)
- xinyang (Chinese)—personality.
- xinzhai (Chinese)—fasting of the mind
- xu (Chinese)—empty space.
- xu (Chinese)—doctrine, teaching
- xuanxuejia (Chin.)—the neo-Taoist school
- ya (Chinese)—noble elegance
- yang (Chinese)—bright (parts?)
- yi (Chinese)—uprightness; easily; justice
- Yijing (Chinese)—Book of Changes (title)
- yin (Chinese)—dark (parts?)
- Yin-yang (Chinese)—Yin and Yang; two opposing and complementary principles.
- yi xing xie shen (Chinese)—apprehension of the spirit through form.
- yipin or yige (Chinese)—free.
- yong (Chin.)—way of manifesting itself, function
- you (Chinese)—being; existence
- yu (Chinese)—undifferentiating ignorance
- yu xuan (Chinese)—object hidden from sight.
- Yuandao (Chinese)—on the origin of truth (work by Han Yu/Zhangli)
- Yuanxing (Chinese)—on the origin of human nature.
- Zhangli xiansheng ji (Chinese)—collected works of Zhangli (Han Yu) (title of book)
- zhenren (Chinese)—true (man)
- zhi (Chin.)—wisdom
- zhi (Chinese)—vertical line, knowledge; what points to a universal
- zhizhi (Chinese)—knowledge (?), broadening of knowledge (?), they broadened their knowledge (?)
- zhiren (Chinese)—perfect man
- zhong (Chinese)—being conscientiousness
- Zhong-yong (Chin.)—doctrine of the mean (title of a work)
- ziran (Chinese)—spontaneous naturalness.
- zuowang (Chinese)—Daoist meditation described as “sitting and forgetting”.