彈指

Readings

Pinyin: dànzhǐ

Wade-Giles: tan -chih

Hangul: 탄지

Korean MC: tanji

Korean MR: t'anji

Katakana: ダンシ

Katakana: タンジ

Hepburn: danshi

Hepburn: tan ji

đàn chỉ

to snap the fingers

• To snap the fingers—in assent, in joy, in warning; a measure of time equal to twenty winks. See 彈兩指.[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill, Yokoi]
• To snap one's fingers thrice (1) to attract another's attention in a toilet and (2) purge one's body from impurity after stool, (3) let others know one's coming to their rooms and (4) awake a dozing monk. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Yokoi]
• (Skt. acchaṭā, acchaṭā-saṃghāta; aṅgulīṃ nipātayati, acchaṭa-saṃghāta, acchaṭika, acchaṭikā, samanantara) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 719

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 45

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1004-1-23*1184-2

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 836c

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 557

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 89

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 11-P350, 13-P302

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 941b →， 942a

Fo Guang Dictionary, 6002

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0437

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)2531c,2936c

Soothill, 432

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