習

Readings

Pinyin: xí

Wade-Giles: hsi

Hangul: 습

Korean MC: seup

Korean MR: sŭp

Katakana: シュウ

Hepburn: shū

tập

habit

• To learn, to study, to practice—i.e. to learn something by repetition. Habituation. [resp. Charles Muller]
• An abbreviation for 習氣 (Skt. vāsanā), habituated tendencies. Traces, or remains of defilement. [resp. Charles Muller]
• A Chinese translation of samudaya, the second of the four noble truths, more commonly written in Chinese as 集. [resp. Charles Muller]
• Mistaken habituated nature. [resp. Charles Muller]
• To get accustomed to; customs, habits. [resp. Charles Muller]
• To pile up, to add up. [resp. Charles Muller]
• The original meaning of this character is for a baby bird to learn how to fly by repeated attempts. [resp. Charles Muller]
• (Skt. abhyasta, bhāvita, āsevita, niṣevaṇa; samudaya; adhyavasita, abhijñā, abhyasana, abhyāsa, āsevana, āsevitatva, ucita, niṣevita, parijaya, parivāsa, prayukta, pravaṇa, yoga, vāsanā-vyādhi, vāsita, śila, samudāgama, samudācāra, samudānīta, saṃpādita, sevanatā, sevā) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 495

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 648a (628c), 642a, 667c

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0951

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)2491c

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 753-3

Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

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