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Independent Spirit / Independent Heart
獨立心 means independent spirit or independent heart in Japanese.
The first two characters mean independent or independence. The third character means spirit, heart, or mind.
獨立心 is a Japanese term, although Chinese people could guess the meaning (the characters make sense individually in Chinese but are not often used this way). Also, the first character would be written 獨 in Traditional Chinese versus 独 which is the Simplified Chinese and modern Japanese version.
Independent Spirit
獨立精神 means independent spirit in Chinese.
The first two characters mean independent, independence, or to stand alone.
The last two characters mean spirit, spiritual, vigor, vitality, drive, mind, consciousness, thought, essence, heart, or soul.
With this information, you can make your translation combination such as “independent heart,” “stand-alone spirit,” or more creatively, “the drive to stand alone” in English. There are a lot of ways to interpret 獨立精神.
Independence
Besides meaning “to be independent,” this can also mean “to stand alone,” self-reliance or self-support.
Modern Japanese use a simplified version of the first character of independence.
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the same simplified version currently used in mainland China, so understood by most Chinese and all Japanese people. Click on the character to the right if you want the simplified/Japanese version.
Standing by Oneself / Walking by Oneself
獨立獨步 is a Japanese proverb that, Dokuritsu-Doppo, is an indication of independence, self-reliance, standing on one's own two feet, or making one's way in life.
Free Spirit
The first two characters mean freedom or liberty.
The second two characters mean spirit, heart, mind, or soul.
Together, 自由精神 is a title that is very similar to the English term “free spirit.”
See Also: Freedom | Independence
Free Spirit
自由な精神 is very similar to the English term “free spirit.”
The first two characters mean freedom or liberty.
The middle character is a connecting Hiragana which is needed for Japanese grammar.
The last two characters mean spirit, heart, mind, or soul.
See Also: Freedom | Independence
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...And This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
All Hopes Fulfilled
All Tenets of the Noble Eightfold Path
Changing Oneself / Self Reformation
Consciousness of Self
Drain the Pond to Get All the Fish
Fair / Impartial
Free Spirit
Free Will
Impartial and Fair to the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of the World
Inner Strength / Self-Improvement
Introspection / Self-Awareness
Jiko No Kansei / Self-Completion
Live Free or Die
Love Conquers All
Loving-Kindness Conquers All
Peaceful / Tranquil / Calm / Free From Worry
Power of Oneself / Self-Sufficient
Prideful Mind / Self-Respecting Heart
Self Actualization
Self Awareness Becomes a Buddha
Self Consciousness
Self Sacrifice
Self-Confidence
Self-Control
Self-Defense
Self-Discipline / Will-Power
Self-Improvement
Self-Love / Love Yourself / Love Oneself
Self-Reliance
Self-Respect / Self-Esteem
Self-Restraint / Self-Control
Soldier / Private
Tathata / Ultimate Nature of All Things
Time Heals All Wounds
To a Willing Heart, All Things Are Possible
To Be Free / Freedom
To Thine Own Self Be True
Unselfish: Perfectly Impartial
Will-Power / Self-Control
With All the Strength of Your Heart
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
三諦 三谛 see styles |
sān dì san1 di4 san ti santai; sandai さんたい; さんだい |
More info & calligraphy: The Three TruthsThe three dogmas. The "middle" school of Tiantai says 卽空, 卽假. 卽中 i.e. 就是空, 假, 中; (a) by 空śūnya is meant that things causally produced are intheir essential nature unreal (or immaterial) 實空無; (b) 假, though thingsare unreal in their essential nature their derived forms are real; (c) 中;but both are one, being of the one 如 reality. These three dogmas arefounded on a verse of Nāgārjuna's— 因緣所生法, 我說卽是空 亦爲是假名, 亦是中道義 "All causally produced phenomena, I say, areunreal, Are but a passing name, and indicate the 'mean'." There are otherexplanations— the 圓教 interprets the 空 and 假 as 中; the 別教 makes 中 independent. 空 is the all, i.e. the totality of all things, and is spokenof as the 眞 or 實 true, or real; 假 is the differentiation of all thingsand is spoken of as 俗 common, i.e. things as commonly named; 中 is theconnecting idea which makes a unity of both, e.g. "all are but parts of onestupendous whole." The 中 makes all and the all into one whole, unifying thewhole and its parts. 空 may be taken as the immaterial, the undifferentiatedall, the sum of existences, by some as the tathāgatagarbha 如來藏; 假as theunreal, or impermanent, the material or transient form, the temporal thatcan be named, the relative or discrete; 中 as the unifier, which places eachin the other and all in all. The "shallower" 山外 school associated 空 and 中 with the noumenal universe as opposed to the phenomenal and illusoryexistence represented by 假. The "profounder" 山内 school teaches that allthree are aspects of the same. |
心印 see styles |
xīn yìn xin1 yin4 hsin yin shinnin |
More info & calligraphy: Appreciation of Truth by Meditation |
汶萊 汶莱 see styles |
wèn lái wen4 lai2 wen lai |
More info & calligraphy: Brunei |
無我 无我 see styles |
wú wǒ wu2 wo3 wu wo muga むが |
More info & calligraphy: Selflessness(1) selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; (2) {Buddh} anatta; anatman; doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls; (female given name) Muga anātman; nairātmya; no ego, no soul (of an independent and self-contained character), impersonal, no individual independent existence (of conscious or unconscious beings, anātmaka). The empirical ego is merely an aggregation of various elements, and with their disintegration it ceases to exist; therefore it has nm ultimate reality of its own, but the Nirvāṇa Sūtra asserts the reality of the ego in the transcendental realm. The non-Buddhist definition of ego is that it has permanent individuality 常一之體 and is independent or sovereign 有主宰之用. When applied to men it is 人我, when to things it is 法我. Cf. 常 11. |
独自 see styles |
dokuji どくじ |
More info & calligraphy: Alone / A Lone Person |
獨立 独立 see styles |
dú lì du2 li4 tu li |
More info & calligraphy: IndependenceSee: 独立 |
獨自 独自 see styles |
dú zì du2 zi4 tu tzu dokuji |
More info & calligraphy: Alone / A Lone Personindependent |
空無 空无 see styles |
kōng wú kong1 wu2 k`ung wu kung wu kūmu |
More info & calligraphy: Nothingness |
独立心 see styles |
dokuritsushin どくりつしん |
More info & calligraphy: Independent Spirit / Independent Heart |
性 see styles |
xìng xing4 hsing narikuse なりくせ |
nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4] (archaism) disposition; nature; character; (surname) Shou svabhāva, prakṛti, pradhāna. The nature intp. as embodied, causative, unchanging; also as independent or self-dependent; fundamental nature behind the manifestation or expression. Also, the Buddha-nature immanent in all beings, the Buddha heart or mind. |
獨 独 see styles |
dú du2 tu doku |
alone; independent; single; sole; only Only, alone, solitary. |
色 see styles |
shǎi shai3 shai shoku しょく |
(coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3zi5] (counter) counter for colours; (female given name) Shiki rūpa, outward appearance, form, colour, matter, thing; the desirable, especially feminine attraction. It is defined as that which has resistance; or which changes and disappears, i. e. the phenomenal; also as 顯, 形 and 表色 colour and quality, form or the measurable, and mode or action. There are divisions of two, i. e. inner and outer, as the organs and objects of sense; also colour and form; of three, i. e. the visible object, e. g. colour, the invisible object, e. g. sound, the invisible and immaterial; of eleven, i. e. the five organs and five objects of sense and the immaterial object; of fourteen, the five organs and five objects of sense and the four elements, earth, water, fire, air. rūpa is one of the six bāhya-āyatana, the 六塵; also one of the five skandhas, 五蘊, i. e. the 色身. Keith refers to rūpa as 'material form or matter which is underived (no-utpādā) and which is derived (utpādā)', the underived or independent being the tangible; the derived or dependent being the senses, e. g. of hearing; most of their objects, e. g. sound; the qualities or faculties of feminity, masculinity, vitality; intimation by act and speech, space; qualities of matter, e. g. buoyancy and physical nutriment. |
詞 词 see styles |
cí ci2 tz`u tzu shi し |
word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4chao2] (CL:首[shou3]) (1) words; writing; lyrics; (2) (See 填詞) ci (form of Chinese poetry); (3) (See 辞・3) independent word; (female given name) Kotoba An expression, phrase, word. |
離 离 see styles |
lí li2 li ri り |
to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (something); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire; ☲ li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south); (surname) Mato To leave, part from, apart from. abandon; translit. li, le, r, re, rai. |
三業 三业 see styles |
sān yè san1 ye4 san yeh sangou / sango さんごう |
{Buddh} (See 身口意) three activities (action, speech and thought) trividha-dvāra. The three conditions, inheritances, or karma, of which there are several groups. (1) Deed, word, thought, 身, 口, 意. (2) (a) Present-1ife happy karma; (6) present-life unhappy karma; (c) 不動 karma of an imperturbable nature. (3) (a) Good; (b) evil; (c) neutral karma. (4) (a) 漏業 Karma of ordinary rebirth; (6) 無漏業 karma of Hīnayāna nirvana; (c) 非漏非無漏 karma of neither, independent of both, Mahāyāna nirvana. (5) (a) Present deeds and their consequences in this life; (b) present deeds and their next life consequences; (c) present deeds and consequences after the next life, There are other groups of three. |
二我 see styles |
èr wǒ er4 wo3 erh wo niga |
(二我見) The two erroneous views of individualism: (a) 人我見 The erroneous view that there is an independent human personality or soul, and (b) 法我見 the like view that anything exists with an independent nature. |
人執 人执 see styles |
rén zhí ren2 zhi2 jen chih ninshū |
The (false) tenet of a soul, or ego, or permanent individual, i.e. that the individual is real, the ego an independent unit and not a mere combination of the five skandhas produced by cause and in effect disintegrating; v. 我執. |
仏所 see styles |
bussho ぶっしょ |
(1) place containing a Buddhist image; (2) (See 極楽・1,浄土・1) place containing a Buddha; pure land; (3) (See 造仏所) independent workshop of Buddhist sculptors (from the Heian period onward); (place-name) Bussho |
俺流 see styles |
oreryuu / oreryu おれりゅう |
(masculine speech) one's own way of thinking; one's independent approach |
公學 公学 see styles |
gōng xué gong1 xue2 kung hsüeh |
elite fee-charging independent school in England or Wales (e.g. Eton College) |
分立 see styles |
fēn lì fen1 li4 fen li bunritsu ぶんりつ |
to establish as separate entities; to divide (a company etc) into independent entities; discrete; separate; separation (of powers etc) (n,vs,vi) segregation; separation; independence |
割據 割据 see styles |
gē jù ge1 ju4 ko chü |
to set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation; division; fragmentation |
十障 see styles |
shí zhàng shi2 zhang4 shih chang jisshō |
Ten hindrances; bodhisattvas in the stage of 十地 overcome these ten hindrances and realize the十眞如 q.v. The hindrances are: (1) 異生性障 the hindrance of the common illusions of the unenlightened, taking the seeming for real; (2) 邪行障 the hindrance of common unenlightened conduct; (3) 暗鈍障 the hindrance of ignorant and dull ideas; (4) 細惑現行障 the hindrance of the illusion that things are real and have independent existence; (5)下乘涅槃障 the hindrance of the lower ideals in Hīnayāna of nirvāṇa; (6) 細相現行障 the hindrance of the ordinary ideas of the pure and impure; (7) 細相現行障 the hindrance of the idea of reincarnation; (8) 無相加行障 the hindrance of the continuance of activity even in the formless world; (9) 不欲行障 the hindrance of no desire to act for the salvation of others; (10) 法未自在障 the hindrance of non- attainment of complete mastery of all things. v. 唯識論 10. |
単館 see styles |
tankan たんかん |
(adj-f,n) single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film) |
四力 see styles |
sì lì si4 li4 ssu li shiriki |
The four powers for attaining enlightenment: independent personal power; power derived from others; power of past good karma; and power arising from environment. |
四執 四执 see styles |
sì zhí si4 zhi2 ssu chih shishū |
The four erroneous tenets; also 四邪; 四迷; 四術; there are two groups: I. The four of the 外道 outsiders, or non-Buddhists, i. e. of Brahminism, concerning the law of cause and effect: (1) 邪因邪果 heretical theory of causation, e. g. creation by Mahesvara; (2) 無因有果 or 自然, effect independent of cause, e. g. creation without a cause, or spontaneous generation; (3) 有因無果 cause without effect, e. g. no future life as the result of this. (4) 無因無果 neither cause nor effect, e. g. that rewards and punishments are independent of morals. II. The four erroneous tenets of 內外道 insiders and outsiders, Buddhist and Brahman, also styled 四宗 the four schools, as negated in the 中論 Mādhyamika śāstra: (1) outsiders, who do not accept either the 人 ren or 法 fa ideas of 空 kong; (2) insiders who hold the Abhidharma or Sarvāstivādāḥ tenet, which recognizes 人空 human impersonality, but not 法空 the unreality of things; (3) also those who hold the 成實 Satyasiddhi tenet which discriminates the two meanings of 空 kong but not clearly; and also (4) those in Mahāyāna who hold the tenet of the realists. |
四鏡 四镜 see styles |
sì jìng si4 jing4 ssu ching yotsukagami よつかがみ |
(surname) Yotsukagami The four resemblances between a mirror and the bhūtatathatā in the Awakening of Faith 起信論. The bhūtatathatā, like the mirror, is independent of all beings, reveals all objects, is not hindered by objects, and serves all beings. |
土邦 see styles |
tǔ bāng tu3 bang1 t`u pang tu pang |
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa) |
多羅 多罗 see styles |
duō luó duo1 luo2 to lo tara たら |
(1) (abbreviation) (See 多羅樹) palmyra; (2) (abbreviation) (See 多羅葉) lusterleaf holly; (3) patra (silver incense dish placed in front of a Buddhist statue); (surname, female given name) Tara tārā, in the sense of starry, or scintillation; Tāla, for the fan-palm; Tara, from 'to pass over', a ferry, etc. Tārā, starry, piercing, the eye, the pupil; the last two are both Sanskrit and Chinese definitions; it is a term applied to certain female deities and has been adopted especially by Tibetan Buddhism for certain devīs of the Tantric school. The origin of the term is also ascribed to tar meaning 'to cross', i. e. she who aids to cross the sea of mortality. Getty, 19-27. The Chinese derivation is the eye; the tara devīs; either as śakti or independent, are little known outside Lamaism. Tāla is the palmyra, or fan-palm, whose leaves are used for writing and known as 具多 Pei-to, pattra. The tree is described as 70 or 80 feet high, with fruit like yellow rice-seeds; the borassus eabelliformis; a measure of 70 feet. Taras, from to cross over, also means a ferry, and a bank, or the other shore. Also 呾囉. |
孤高 see styles |
gū gāo gu1 gao1 ku kao kokou / koko ここう |
arrogant (adj-no,n,adj-na) aloof; proudly independent; standing apart; solitary |
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| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Independent Spirit Independent Heart | 獨立心 独立心 | dokuritsushin | ||
| Independent Spirit | 獨立精神 独立精神 | dú lì jīng shén du2 li4 jing1 shen2 du li jing shen dulijingshen | tu li ching shen tulichingshen |
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| Independence | 獨立 独立 | dokuritsu | dú lì / du2 li4 / du li / duli | tu li / tuli |
| Standing by Oneself Walking by Oneself | 獨立獨步 独立独步 | do kuritsu do ppo dokuritsudoppo do kuritsu do po | ||
| Free Spirit | 自由精神 | zì yóu jīng shén zi4 you2 jing1 shen2 zi you jing shen ziyoujingshen | tzu yu ching shen tzuyuchingshen |
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| Free Spirit | 自由な精神 | ji yuu na sei shin jiyuunaseishin ji yu na sei shin | ||
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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