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kaato
カート is the name Cart in Japanese Katakana.
Note: Because this title is entirely Japanese Katakana, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
Put out a burning wood cart with a cup of water
An utterly inadequate measure
bēi shuǐ chē xīn
杯水車薪 is a warning against a futile effort.
This proverb literally refers to one who is “trying to put out a burning cart of wood with a cup of water,” or “throw a cup of water on a cartload of wood.” The lesson to be learned is about using the right measure or tool for the job and not wasting your effort if you are inadequately equipped for the task at hand - in other words the postscript should be “go get a bucket or a fire hose.”
Learn From Your Predecessors
When the cart in front overturns, be cautious with your own
qián chē zhī fù hòu chē zhī jiàn
前車之覆后車之鑒 is a Chinese proverb that suggests looking at the circumstances and toils of those you proceeded before you and learning from their experience.
This more literally means “the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart.”
This is figuratively translated as “draw a lesson from the failure of one's predecessor,” “learn from past mistakes,” or compared to the English idiom, “once bitten twice shy.”
Other more-direct translations:
Make the overturning of the chariot in front a warning for the chariot behind.
Learn caution through an unpleasant experience.
The wrecked coach in front should be a warning.
The overturned cart in front serves as a warning to the carts behind.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
杯水車薪 杯水车薪 see styles |
bēi shuǐ chē xīn bei1 shui3 che1 xin1 pei shui ch`e hsin pei shui che hsin |
More info & calligraphy: Put out a burning wood cart with a cup of water |
挽 see styles |
wǎn wan3 wan hiki ひき |
to pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up; to coil; to carry on the arm; to lament the dead; (fig.) to pull against; to recover (surname) Hiki |
車 车 see styles |
jū ju1 chü chiya ちや |
war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess); rook (in chess) (suffix) (1) car; vehicle; van; truck; wagon; lorry; (suf,ctr) (2) (train) car; carriage; (surname) Chiya A cart, wheeled conveyance. |
輈 辀 see styles |
zhōu zhou1 chou |
(literary) shaft (of a cart); cart |
輓 挽 see styles |
wǎn wan3 wan |
variant of 挽[wan3]; to draw (a cart); to lament the dead See: 挽 |
輠 see styles |
guǒ guo3 kuo |
grease-pot under a cart |
輪 轮 see styles |
lún lun2 lun run るん |
wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn (counter) counter for wheels and flowers; (female given name) Run cakra; wheel, disc, rotation, to revolve; v. 研. The three wheels are 惑業苦illusion, karma, suffering, in constant revolution. The five are earth, water, fire, wind, and space; the earth rests on revolving spheres of water, fire, wind, and space. The nine are seen on the tops of pagodas, cf. 九輪.; The two wheels of a cart compared by the Tiantai school to 定 (or to its Tiantai form 止觀) and 慧 meditation and wisdom; see 止觀 5. Also 食 food and 法 the doctrine, i. e. food physical and spiritual. |
輹 see styles |
fù fu4 fu |
parts of cart holding the axle |
轅 辕 see styles |
yuán yuan2 yüan nagae ながえ |
shafts of cart; yamen shafts (attached to the yoke of a cart, plow, etc.) |
轖 see styles |
sè se4 se |
leather top of a cart |
錁 锞 see styles |
kè ke4 k`o ko |
grease-pot for cart; ingot |
駕 驾 see styles |
jià jia4 chia kago かご |
to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辭|敬辞[jing4 ci2]) vehicle; horse-drawn carriage; (place-name) Kago [horse] carriage |
光宅 see styles |
guāng zhái guang1 zhai2 kuang chai Kōtaku |
Kuang-chai, name of the temple where 法雲 Fa-yun early in the sixth century wrote his commentary on the Lotus Sutra, which is known as the 光宅疏; 光宅 became his epithet. He made a division of four yāna from the Burning House parable, the goat cart representing the śrāvaka, the deer cart the pratyekabuddha, the ox-cart the Hīnayāna bodhisattva, and the great white ox-cart the Mahāyāna bodhisattva; a division adopted by T'ien-t'ai. |
台車 see styles |
daisha だいしゃ |
(1) platform truck; hand truck; trolley; dolly; cart; (2) {rail} truck; bogie |
四乘 see styles |
sì shèng si4 sheng4 ssu sheng shijō |
The goat, deer, and ox carts and the great white-bullock cart of the Lotus Sutra, see 四車. |
地車 see styles |
jiguruma じぐるま |
four-wheeled cart for moving heavy objects |
大乘 see styles |
dà shèng da4 sheng4 ta sheng oonori おおのり |
Mahayana, the Great Vehicle; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond; also pr. [Da4 cheng2] (surname) Oonori Mahāyāna; also called 上乘; 妙乘; 勝乘; 無上乘; 無上上乘; 不惡乘; 無等乘, 無等等乘; 摩訶衍 The great yāna, wain, or conveyance, or the greater vehicle in comparison with the 小乘 Hīnayāna. It indicates universalism, or Salvation for all, for all are Buddha and will attain bodhi. It is the form of Buddhism prevalent in Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, and in other places in the Far East. It is also called Northern Buddhism. It is interpreted as 大教 the greater teaching as compared with 小教 the smaller, or inferior. Hīnayāna, which is undoubtedly nearer to the original teaching of the Buddha, is unfairly described as an endeavour to seek nirvana through an ash-covered body, an extinguished intellect, and solitariness; its followers are sravakas and pratyekabuddhas (i.e. those who are striving for their own deliverance through ascetic works). Mahāyāna, on the other hand, is described as seeking to find and extend all knowledge, and, in certain schools, to lead all to Buddhahood. It has a conception of an Eternal Buddha, or Buddhahood as Eternal (Adi-Buddha), but its especial doctrines are, inter alia, (a) the bodhisattvas 菩薩 , i.e. beings who deny themselves final Nirvana until, according to their vows, they have first saved all the living; (b) salvation by faith in, or invocation of the Buddhas or bodhisattvas; (c) Paradise as a nirvana of bliss in the company of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, saints, and believers. Hīnayāna is sometimes described as 自利 self-benefiting, and Mahāyāna as 自利利他 self-benefit for the benefit of others, unlimited altruism and pity being the theory of Mahāyāna. There is a further division into one-yana and three-yanas: the trīyāna may be śrāvaka, pratyeka-buddha, and bodhisattva, represented by a goat, deer, or bullock cart; the one-yāna is that represented by the Lotus School as the one doctrine of the Buddha, which had been variously taught by him according to the capacity of his hearers, v. 方便. Though Mahāyāna tendencies are seen in later forms of the older Buddhism, the foundation of Mahāyāna has been attributed to Nāgārjuna 龍樹. "The characteristics of this system are an excess of transcendental speculation tending to abstract nihilism, and the substitution of fanciful degrees of meditation and contemplation (v. Samādhi and Dhyāna) in place of the practical asceticism of the Hīnayāna school."[Eitel 68-9.] Two of its foundation books are the 起信論and the 妙法蓮華經 but a larnge numberof Mahāyāna sutras are ascribed to the Buddha。. |
大車 大车 see styles |
dà chē da4 che1 ta ch`e ta che ooguruma おおぐるま |
(surname) Ooguruma The great bullock-cart in the parable of the burning house, i.e. Mahāyāna, v. Lotus Sutra. |
套車 套车 see styles |
tào chē tao4 che1 t`ao ch`e tao che |
to harness (a horse to a cart) |
家台 see styles |
yatai やたい |
(irregular kanji usage) (1) cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand; (2) festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; dancing platform; (3) stage prop fashioned after a large building; (4) (abbreviation) framework (of a house, etc.); (5) (archaism) house (esp. a small and miserable house) |
寶車 宝车 see styles |
bǎo chē bao3 che1 pao ch`e pao che hōsha |
The precious cart (in the Lotus Sutra), i.e. the one vehicle, the Mahāyāna. |
小車 小车 see styles |
xiǎo chē xiao3 che1 hsiao ch`e hsiao che oguruma おぐるま |
small model car; mini-car; small horse-cart; barrow; wheelbarrow; type of folk dance (1) (おぐるま only) (archaism) Inula japonica; (2) (archaism) (See 牛車) small cart; small carriage; (3) (こぐるま only) (See 輦車) wheeled palanquin (with a castle-shaped box); (place-name, surname) Oguruma |
屋体 see styles |
yatai やたい |
(1) cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand; (2) festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; dancing platform; (3) stage prop fashioned after a large building; (4) (abbreviation) framework (of a house, etc.); (5) (archaism) house (esp. a small and miserable house) |
屋台 see styles |
yatai やたい |
(1) cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand; (2) festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; dancing platform; (3) stage prop fashioned after a large building; (4) (abbreviation) framework (of a house, etc.); (5) (archaism) house (esp. a small and miserable house) |
推車 推车 see styles |
tuī chē tui1 che1 t`ui ch`e tui che |
cart; trolley; to push a cart |
攪局 搅局 see styles |
jiǎo jú jiao3 ju2 chiao chü |
to upset the apple cart; to disrupt things |
板車 板车 see styles |
bǎn chē ban3 che1 pan ch`e pan che |
handcart; flatbed cart; flatbed tricycle |
柴車 柴车 see styles |
chái chē chai2 che1 ch`ai ch`e chai che shibakuruma しばくるま |
simple and crude cart (or chariot) (surname) Shibakuruma |
横車 see styles |
yokoguruma よこぐるま |
(exp,n) (1) (See 横車を押す) perverseness; obstinacy; something unreasonable (like pushing a cart from the side (instead of from behind)); (2) side wheel throw (judo); (surname) Yokoguruma |
檻車 槛车 see styles |
jiàn chē jian4 che1 chien ch`e chien che |
cart with cage, used to escort prisoner |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Cart | カート | kaato / kato | ||
| Put out a burning wood cart with a cup of water | 杯水車薪 杯水车薪 | bēi shuǐ chē xīn bei1 shui3 che1 xin1 bei shui che xin beishuichexin | pei shui ch`e hsin peishuichehsin pei shui che hsin |
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| Learn From Your Predecessors | 前車之覆后車之鑒 前车之覆后车之鉴 | qián chē zhī fù hòu chē zhī jiàn qian2 che1 zhi1 fu4 hou4 che1 zhi1 jian4 qian che zhi fu hou che zhi jian | ch`ien ch`e chih fu hou ch`e chih chien chien che chih fu hou che chih chien |
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| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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