四有

Japanese

Kanji in this term
四	有
し Grade: 1	う Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) し​う [shíꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

四(し)有(う) • (shiu) 

1. (Buddhism) the four stages of existence: 生有(しょうう) (shōu, “moment of birth”), 本有(ほんぬ) (honnu, “life”), 死有(しう) (shiu, “moment of death”), and 中有(ちゅうう) (chūu, “state between death and the next reincarnation”)