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諦

Stroke Order

Meanings

  • truth
  • clarity
  • abandon
  • give up

On'yomi (音読み)

  • テイ
  • タイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

  • あきら.める
  • つまびらか
  • まこと
Strokes
16
Frequency
#2029
School Grade
Secondary
Radical
言#149 · speech

Components

Common Words

  • 諦たいNoun
    satya, truth
  • 諦めるあきらめるIchidan verb
    to give up, to abandon (hope, plans), to resign oneself (to)
  • 三諦さんたいNoun
    threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two) (in Tendai)
  • 中諦ちゅうたいNoun
    truth of the middle (all things are in a middle state, being void yet having temporary existence)
  • 仮諦けたいNoun
    truth of temporariness (holding that all things are temporary)
  • 俗諦ぞくたいNoun
    conventional truth
  • 四諦したいNoun
    The Four Noble Truths
  • 妙諦みょうていNoun
    amazing truth, cardinal principle, key (to understanding)

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