常

Readings

Pinyin: cháng

Wade-Giles: ch'ang

Hangul: 상

Korean MC: sang

Korean MR: sang

Katakana: ジョウ

Hepburn: jō

thường

permanent

• Eternal, always (Skt. nitya; śāśvata). Prolonged, constant, always, unceasing, permanent, perpetual, ever.[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD, Soothill]
• Normal, ordinary, regular, everyday. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
• (Skt. nityam, sadā, satata, dhruva; atyanta, atyantatas, atyantam, aniṣṭhitam, anuparata, abhīkṣṇa, abhīkṣṇam, abhīkṣṇaśas, avyucchinnam, ahar-ahar, ucita, kālena kālam, dhruvatva, nitya-kāya, nitya-kāla, nitya-kālam, nityatā, nityatva, nityârtha, pūrvântatas, pratata, pravāha, bāhulyatas, śaśvat, śāśvatatva, śāśvatatva-prasaṅga, śāśvatam, satatam, satata-samitam, sarva-kālam, sarvadā, sātatika, sātatya, sthititā; Tib. rtag pa) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 524d

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 151

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 141b/156

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 756a

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0420

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)2691b

Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa), {Digital Version}

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