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    3. 無常

    無常

    無む常じょう

    uncertainty

    KMT10News #40+1Noun, Adjective, ParticleReligion & PhilosophyKanji Vocab23 strokes

    むじょう

    Noun, Adjective, Particle

    1.
    uncertainty, transiency, impermanence, mutability
    Buddhism

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    人じん生せいは無む常じょうです。

    Life is impermanent.

    KMT10Religion & Philosophyphilosophy
    仏ぶっ教きょうでは、すべてのものは無む常じょうであると説とかれています。

    In Buddhism, it is taught that all things are impermanent.

    KMT10Religion & Philosophyphilosophy
    桜さくらの花はなが散ちる様よう子すは、この世よの無む常じょうを象しょう徴ちょうしているかのようだ。

    The sight of cherry blossoms falling seems to symbolize the impermanence of this world.

    KMT10Religion & PhilosophyNature & EnvironmentCulture & Traditions
    彼かれは無む常じょう観かんを抱いだき、世せ俗ぞく的てきな欲よく望ぼうから離はなれて生いきています。

    He embraces a sense of impermanence and lives detached from worldly desires.

    KMT10Religion & Philosophyphilosophy
    平へい家けも物のが語たりは、諸しょ行ぎょう無む常じょうの思し想そうを色いろ濃こく反はん映えいした作さく品ひんです。

    The Tale of the Heike is a work that strongly reflects the Buddhist concept of the impermanence of all things.

    KMT10Culture & TraditionsLiteratureHistory

    Kanji that make up this word

    無
    な.い…(2)
    nothingness・none・ain't・nothing・nil…(1)
    常
    つね・とこ-…(5)
    usual・ordinary・normal・common・regular…(3)
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