"法王" meaning in Chinese

See 法王 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ wɑŋ³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /faːt̚³ wɔːŋ²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA]
Etymology: Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja). Etymology templates: {{calque|zh|sa|धर्मराज}} Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja) Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 法王
  1. (Buddhism) dharma-king, an epithet for a Buddha
    Sense id: en-法王-zh-noun-neahMpkx Categories (other): Buddhism, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
  2. (Church of the East, historical) an epithet for God Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-法王-zh-noun-6MJZmgz8 Categories (other): Church of the East
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 雷電法王 (Léidiàn Fǎwáng), 雷电法王 (Léidiàn Fǎwáng)
{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "王法"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Léidiàn Fǎwáng",
      "word": "雷電法王"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Léidiàn Fǎwáng",
      "word": "雷电法王"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "hōō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "法王",
          "ほうおう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "法王"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "beobwang",
      "word": "법왕(法王)"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "法王",
      "word": "pháp vương"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "धर्मराज"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja)",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "法王",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Buddhism",
          "orig": "zh:Buddhism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "english": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Avatamsaka Sutra",
          "roman": "Zhū fó fǎwáng, jiē xī shǒuhù cǐ púsà móhēsà.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Traditional-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "諸佛法王,皆悉守護此菩薩摩訶薩。",
          "translation": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "english": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Avatamsaka Sutra",
          "roman": "Zhū fó fǎwáng, jiē xī shǒuhù cǐ púsà móhēsà.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Simplified-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "诸佛法王,皆悉守护此菩萨摩诃萨。",
          "translation": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dharma-king, an epithet for a Buddha"
      ],
      "id": "en-法王-zh-noun-neahMpkx",
      "links": [
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          "Buddhism",
          "Buddhism"
        ],
        [
          "epithet",
          "epithet"
        ],
        [
          "Buddha",
          "Buddha"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Buddhism) dharma-king, an epithet for a Buddha"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Buddhism",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Church of the East",
          "orig": "zh:Church of the East",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an epithet for God"
      ],
      "id": "en-法王-zh-noun-6MJZmgz8",
      "links": [
        [
          "Church of the East",
          "Church of the East"
        ],
        [
          "epithet",
          "epithet"
        ],
        [
          "God",
          "God"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Church of the East, historical) an epithet for God"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎwáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄈㄚˇ ㄨㄤˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat³ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎwáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄈㄚˇ ㄨㄤˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎwáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fa³-wang²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎ-wáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faawang"
    },
    {
      "roman": "favan",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "фаван"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ wɑŋ³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat³ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat wòhng"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat⁸ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fad³ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/faːt̚³ wɔːŋ²¹/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "法王"
}
{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "王法"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms calqued from Sanskrit",
    "Chinese terms derived from Sanskrit",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 法",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 王",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "Léidiàn Fǎwáng",
      "word": "雷電法王"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Léidiàn Fǎwáng",
      "word": "雷电法王"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "hōō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "法王",
          "ほうおう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "法王"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "beobwang",
      "word": "법왕(法王)"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "法王",
      "word": "pháp vương"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "धर्मराज"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja)",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "法王",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations",
        "zh:Buddhism"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "english": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Avatamsaka Sutra",
          "roman": "Zhū fó fǎwáng, jiē xī shǒuhù cǐ púsà móhēsà.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Traditional-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "諸佛法王,皆悉守護此菩薩摩訶薩。",
          "translation": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "english": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Avatamsaka Sutra",
          "roman": "Zhū fó fǎwáng, jiē xī shǒuhù cǐ púsà móhēsà.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Simplified-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "诸佛法王,皆悉守护此菩萨摩诃萨。",
          "translation": "All Buddhas, the dharma-kings, will protect this bodhisattva-mahasattva.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dharma-king, an epithet for a Buddha"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Buddhism",
          "Buddhism"
        ],
        [
          "epithet",
          "epithet"
        ],
        [
          "Buddha",
          "Buddha"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Buddhism) dharma-king, an epithet for a Buddha"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Buddhism",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese terms with historical senses",
        "zh:Church of the East"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an epithet for God"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Church of the East",
          "Church of the East"
        ],
        [
          "epithet",
          "epithet"
        ],
        [
          "God",
          "God"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Church of the East",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Church of the East, historical) an epithet for God"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎwáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄈㄚˇ ㄨㄤˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat³ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎwáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄈㄚˇ ㄨㄤˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎwáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fa³-wang²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fǎ-wáng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faawang"
    },
    {
      "roman": "favan",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "фаван"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ wɑŋ³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat³ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat wòhng"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "faat⁸ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "fad³ wong⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/faːt̚³ wɔːŋ²¹/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau",
        "Standard-Cantonese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "法王"
}

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