多聞天
Japanese
edit| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 多 | 聞 | 天 |
| た Grade: 2 |
もん Grade: 2 |
てん Grade: 1 |
| goon | ||
Etymology
edit多聞 (“all hearing”) + 天 (“deva”), Middle Chinese 多聞天王 (MC ta mjun|mjunH then hjwang|hjwangH, literally “All-Hearing Heavenly King”), calque of Sanskrit वैश्रवण (vaiśravaṇa, literally “All Hearer”)
Pronunciation
editProper noun
edit- (Buddhism) Synonym of 毘沙門天 (Bishamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa”)
- Hypernym: 四天王
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 多 read as た
- Japanese terms spelled with 聞 read as もん
- Japanese terms spelled with 天 read as てん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
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- Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Japanese terms calqued from Sanskrit
- Japanese terms derived from Sanskrit
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- Japanese lemmas
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- Japanese terms written with three Han script characters
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