色即是空

See also: 色卽是空

Chinese

		color; dice; look color; dice; look; appearance	namely; right away; to approach namely; right away; to approach; to draw near	be; yes; this	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
simp. and trad. (色即是空)		色	即	是	空

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sè jí shì kōng

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄜˋ ㄐㄧˊ ㄕˋ ㄎㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹ zik¹ si⁶ hung¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: sè jí shì kōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄜˋ ㄐㄧˊ ㄕˋ ㄎㄨㄥ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: seh jyi shyh kong
  - IPA ^(key): /sɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕi³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sik¹ zik¹ si⁶ hung¹
  - Yale: sīk jīk sih hūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷ dzik⁷ si⁶ hung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xig¹ jig¹ xi⁶ hung¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵ t͡sɪk̚⁵ siː²² hʊŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ʃɨk̚ t͡sɨk̚ d͡ʑiᴇ^X kʰuŋ/▼

Rime
Character	色	即	是	空
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	精 (13)	常 (25)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	職 (134)	職 (134)	支 (11)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III	I
Fanqie	所力切	子力切	承紙切	苦紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃɨk̚/	/t͡sɨk̚/	/d͡ʑiᴇ^X/	/kʰuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃɨk̚/	/t͡sɨk̚/	/d͡ʑiɛ^X/	/kʰuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiek̚/	/t͡siek̚/	/d͡ʑjɛ^X/	/kʰuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂik̚/	/t͡sik̚/	/d͡ʑiə̆^X/	/kʰəwŋ/
Li Rong	/ʃiək̚/	/t͡siək̚/	/ʑie^X/	/kʰuŋ/
Wang Li	/ʃĭək̚/	/t͡sĭək̚/	/ʑǐe^X/	/kʰuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂi̯ək̚/	/t͡si̯ək̚/	/ʑie̯^X/	/kʰuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	she	ji	shì	kōng

Phrase

色即是空

Short for 色即是空，空即是色 (sè jí shì kōng, kōng jí shì sè).

Japanese

Kanji in this term
色	即	是	空
しき Grade: 2	そく Grade: S	ぜ Grade: S	くう Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

Attested in the Heart Sutra.

From Middle Chinese 色即是空 (MC ʃɨk̚ t͡sɨk̚ d͡ʑiᴇ^X kʰuŋ), itself being Kumārajīva's translation from Sanskrit यद् रूपं सा शून्यता (yad rūpaṃ sā śūnyatā, literally “form is indeed emptiness”).

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) しきそくぜくう [shìkí sókú zéꜜkùù] (Nakadaka – [5])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [ɕikʲi so̞kɯ̟ᵝ d͡ze̞ kɯ̟ᵝː]

Phrase

色即是空 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 色卽是空, hiragana しきそくぜくう, rōmaji shiki soku ze kū)

(Buddhism) fundamental doctrine that all things in this world that have a connection or reason has no intrinsic essence

See also

空 (くう)即 (そく)是 (ぜ)色 (しき) (kū soku ze shiki, “emptiness is only form”)

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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