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religion
HSK 6
(folk religion) favorable divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯 (one flat side and one rounded side up); affirmative response from a deity
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
(folk religion) unfavorable divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯 (both blocks rounded side up); negative response from a deity
(folk religion) inconclusive divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯 (at least one block lands on its edge); result interpreted as unclear or exceptional
(folk religion) inconclusive divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯 (both blocks flat side up); ambiguous or noncommittal response from a deity
(folk religion) to divine by drawing fortune sticks or divination lots
(Tw) (folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯 (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pua̍h-pue]) (equivalent to Mandarin 擲筊|掷筊)
to believe in (a religion) / firm belief / conviction
HSK 6
Hinduism / Indian religion
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
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  *奉* | 奉* | *奉
to offer (tribute) / to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc) / to esteem / to revere / to believe in (a religion) / to wait upon / to accept orders (from superior)
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery) / same as 法號|法号
disciple / follower of a religion
foreign teacher (abbr. for 外國教師|外国教师) / greenhorn / novice / amateurish / religion other than Buddhism (term used by Buddhists)
to preach a religion
to convert (to another religion)
founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure
sage / the Sage (i.e. Confucius) / (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty / (religion) saint
the ten commandments (religion)
to convert to (a religion)
Hail Mary / Ave Maria (religion)
to repent / (religion) to confess
to convert to (a religion) / to rely upon / refuge / mainstay
Shinto (Japanese religion)
member of another religion / heathen / pagan / heretic / apostate
to join a religion
monotheistic religion / monotheism
(religion) this mortal life; the mundane world
doctrine (religion)
to be a believer (in a religion, esp. Islam)
Inquisition (religion)
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  *教* | 教* | *教
(bound form) to teach; to instruct / a religion / to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)
adherent of religion / disciple
polytheistic religion; polytheism
Mormon (religion)
lit. true religion / orthodox religion / orthodox Christianity / Islam (in the writing of Chinese or Hui theologians)
creationism (religion)
holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest
state religion
to revere as sole orthodoxy / to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc) / to be dominant
(religion) a vision / strange phenomenon
(folk religion) moon blocks – a pair of crescent-shaped divination blocks thrown on the ground to seek a deity's response
piety / devotion (to a religion) / pious (believer) / devout
to fuse together (idiom) / hypostatic union (religion)
Tenrikyo (Japanese religion)
Exegesis of the Right Religion by Wang Daiyu 王岱輿|王岱舆, a study of Islam published during the Ming dynasty
the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教
intelligent design (religion)
adherent to a religion / convert
a person of foresight / (religion) a prophet
local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) (same as 土地公)
to die for one's religion
price paid to redeem an object / (religion) price paid to redeem sb / ransom
to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc) / to submit
converted to (religion)
(Chinese folk religion) Heibai Wuchang: two deities, one dressed in black and the other in white, responsible for escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld
the Creator (in religion or mythology) / God
fast (in several religions) / Ramadan (Islam) / see also 齋月|斋月
Baha'i (religion)
(folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯, with the positions of the blocks determining the divine answer
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery)
the three foreign religions that had been introduced to China by the time of the Tang dynasty: Nestorianism, Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism
(religion) believers; followers; adherents; the faithful
purgatory (religion)
(Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind
(religion) to sacrifice / sacrifice / animal offered as sacrifice
Mormon (religion)
foreign religion (esp. Western Christianity in Qing China)


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