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使

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Radical Strokes: 2
Additional Strokes: 6
Total Strokes: 8

Pronunciation

Pinyin: shǐ
Cantonese: sai2 si2 si3
JapaneseKun: TSUKAU TSUKAI
JapaneseOn: SHI
Korean: SA SI
Vietnamese: sứ

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: cause, send on a mission, order; envoy, messenger, ambassador

CE-Dict: to make/to cause/to enable/to use/to employ/to send/to instruct sb to do sth/envoy/messenger

Soothill: To send; cause; a messenger; a pursuer, molester, lictor, disturber, troubler, intp. as 煩惱 kleśa (क्लेश), affliction, distress, worldly cares, vexations, and as consequent reincarnation. There are categories of 10, 16, 98, 112, and 128 such troublers, e. g. desire, hate, stupor, pride, doubt, erroneous views, etc., leading to painful results in future rebirths, for they are karma-messengers executing its purpose. Also 金剛童子 q. v.

English-Chinse-English Dictionary of Buddhist terms (Stardict): (1) Defilements, contaminants, affliction, proclivities--since proclivities "cause" people to do various things. (2) Latent afflictions = 隨眠. (3) In the Shidi piposuo lun, the 使 are identified as fundamental afflictions 根本煩惱, as distinguished from the 垢, which are identified as secondary afflictions 隨煩惱. 〔十地毗婆娑論 T 1521.26.108b28〕(4) The ninety-eight proclivities 九十八使. (5) If, supposing that.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.to indulge in
2.to use; to employ; to apply
3.to make; to enable
4.to send as diplomatic personnel
5.diplomatic envoys
6.if
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1.an envoy; an emissary; a minister
2.to be appointed as a diplomatic envoy; to be an ambassador to

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: employ; envoy; if; probe; send; use

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: employ; envoy; if; probe; send; use

湘雅醫學專業詞典: sacrifice

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《人部》使 伶也。从人吏聲。

康熙字典文字版 【子集中】【人字部】 使
〔古文〕𡥐𠭆【唐韻】疏士切【集韻】【韻會】爽士切【正韻】師止切,𠀤音史。令也,役也。【豳風】序:說以使民。【禮·曲禮】六十曰耆指使。【註】指事使人也。【管子·樞言篇】天以時使,地以材使,人以德使,鬼神以祥使,禽獸以力使。 又【集韻】疏吏切【正韻】式至切,𠀤音𩢲。遣人聘問曰使。【前漢·韓信傳】發一乗之使,下咫尺之書。又【鬼谷子抵巇篇】聖人者,天地之使也。【淮南子·天文訓】四時者,天之吏也。日月者,天之使也。 又【諡法】治民克盡嚴篤無私曰使。 本作𠉕。【六書統】从人从事。令人治事也。
考證:〔【易·兌卦】悅以使民。〕 謹按易兌卦象傳是悅以先民,與使字無涉。惟查毛詩豳風東山序有此四字。謹將易兌卦三字改爲豳風序。悅改說。

Foguang Dictionary of Buddhism (佛光大辭典)  煩惱之異名。全稱正使。因煩惱驅使吾人流轉于迷之世界(生死),故稱煩惱為使。與隨眠同義。于十隨眠中,屬見性者為有身見、邊執見、邪見、見取見、戒禁取見等五見,其推求道理之性質較為猛利,故稱五利使;其餘之貪、嗔、癡、慢、疑之性質,則較遲鈍而難以制伏,故稱五鈍使。(參閱‘五利使’1096、‘五鈍使’ 1164、‘正使’1988、‘隨眠’6351)

Ding Fubao - Dictionary for Buddhist Studies (丁福保:佛學大辭典) (術語)煩惱之異名也。就喻以名煩惱。世之公使隨逐罪人而系縛之,煩惱亦隨逐行人。系縛三界使不出離,故名使。又使者驅役之義,煩惱能驅役人,故謂之使。大乘義章六曰:“使者如地論說,隨逐系縛義名之為使。蓋乃就喻以名煩惱,如世公使隨逐罪人得便系縛。煩惱亦然,久隨行人,系縛三有,不令出離,故名為使。毗曇成實亦同此說。故雜心雲:使之隨逐如空行影。成實說言:使之隨逐如母之隨子。此等皆隨逐之義也。有人釋言:驅役名使,于義無爽。但非經論名義。”法界次第上之上曰:“使以驅役為義,能驅役行者心神流轉三界。”

陳義孝佛學常見辭彙 煩惱的別名,因煩惱能使眾生流落於生死。見十使條。

Buddhism words and phrases (term) affliction
(term) proclivities

CF-Dict: envoyé/ utiliser/employer/faire faire/envoyer

Han-De-Dict: Gesandte (u.E.) (S)/Abgesandte (u.E.) (S)/Bevollmächtigte (u.E.) (S)/Bote (u.E.) (S)/Diener (u.E.) (S)

Finnish: toimia, käyttää, mahdollistaa, antaa; ohjata, delegoida; toimia diplomaattina/lähettiläänä/ministerinä