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Trad. 釋名
- "Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning
Trad. 釋文
- interpreting words
- to explain the meaning of words in classic texts
- to decipher an old script
Trad. 釋義
- the meaning of sth
- an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases
- definition
- an interpretation (of doctrine)
- religious doctrine
Trad. 釋迦
- Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged
- the Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2], Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas")
Trad. 冰釋
- to dispel (enmity, misunderstandings etc)
- to vanish (of misgivings, differences of opinion)
- thaw (in relations)
Trad. 詮釋
- to interpret
- to comment and explain
- to annotate
- to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role)
- to decode
- interpretation
- annotation
Trad. 校釋
- to collate and annotate
- (on book titles) collated and annotated
Trad. 釋迦佛
- Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya)
- Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism
Trad. 釋迦牟尼
- Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
Trad. 冰釋前嫌
- (idiom) to forget previous differences; to bury the hatchet
Trad. 如釋重負
- as if relieved from a burden (idiom)
- to have a weight off one's mind
Trad. 愛不忍釋
- to love sth too much to part with it (idiom)
Trad. 愛不釋手
- (idiom) to like sth so much that one is reluctant to put it down; to find sth utterly irresistible
Trad. 解疑釋惑
- (idiom) to solve a problem
- to resolve a difficult issue
Trad. 手不釋卷
- lit. always with a book in hand (idiom)
- fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking
Trad. 渙然冰釋
- (idiom) to melt away; to dissipate; to vanish
Trad. 鳳梨釋迦
- atemoya, hybrid of the cherimoya (Annona cherimola) and the sugar apple (Annona squamosa): a tree grown in tropical regions of the Americas and in Taiwan for its edible fruit
Trad. 釋迦牟尼佛
- Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya)
- Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism
Trad. 杯酒釋兵權
- to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups
- cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces