夜叉

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (夜叉)		夜	叉

Borrowed from Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa).

夜叉

Sino-Xenic (夜叉):

From Middle Chinese 夜叉 (yæ^H cha?), itself a transliteration of Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa).^[1]^[2]

夜(や)叉(しゃ) • (yasha) ^{←やしや (yasya)^?}

yaksha, a broad class of nature spirits or minor deities who appear in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology. May be male or female, benevolent or malevolent.
(Buddhism) in Buddhism, yakshas are held to be followers of 毘沙門天 (Bishamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa, the chief of the Four Heavenly Kings”), and guardians of the north
(figurative) a demon
あの女(おんな)の子(こ)は怒(おこ)るとまさに夜叉(やしゃ)のようだよ。
Ano onna no ko wa okoru to masa ni yasha no yō da yo.
When that girl gets angry, she's a real demon.

夜叉(やしゃ)が馬(うま)を見(み)たよう (yasha ga uma o mita yō): "like when the yaksha saw the horse" → an expression of extreme happiness, from a story of a yaksha who lost his horse

夜叉五倍子(ヤシャブシ) (yashabushi): Alnus firma, a type of alder tree
夜叉竹(ヤシャダケ) (yashadake): Semiarundinaria yashadake, a type of bamboo
夜叉柄杓(ヤシャビシャク) (yashabishaku): Ribes ambiguum, a type of flowering plant related to currants and gooseberry
夜叉薇(ヤシャゼンマイ) (yashazenmai): Osmunda lancea, the Japanese lancea flowering fern

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Hanja in this term
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夜叉 • (yacha) (hangeul 야차)

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
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