四有

Japanese

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

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しう [shíꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕiɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

四(し)有(う) • (shiu)

(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”)

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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