zimai字脈
LookupMandarin · 繁體 · English
Mandarin–English · CC-CEDICTSources ↗
DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

苦集滅道

简 苦集灭道 · 繁 苦集滅道
Mandarin · pinyin kǔ jí miè dào

Meanings

  1. the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦 kǔ, the cause of suffering is desire 集 jí, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅 miè, the way 道 dào to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 bā zhèng dào
  2. also called 四諦 sì dì
Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

苦
kǔ · bitter; hardship, suffering
集
jí · assemble, collect together
滅
Look up this written character
道
dào · path, road, street; method, way
灭
miè · extinguish; wipe out, exterminate
Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Entries containing 苦集滅道 ↗Words written with 苦 ↗Words written with 集 ↗Words written with 滅 ↗Words written with 道 ↗Words written with 灭 ↗

Mandarin tones

3–2–4–4 · ku3 ji2 mie4 dao4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links6source references
Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗
Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.
Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

fu2 zaap6 mit6 dou6

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

苦集滅道 · ku3 ji2 mie4 dao4
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source line 93,732
Original dictionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source & transformation details
Exact source record苦集滅道 苦集灭道 [ku3 ji2 mie4 dao4] /the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦[ku3], the cause of suffering is desire 集[ji2], emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭[mie4], the way 道[dao4] to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道[ba1 zheng4 dao4]/also called 四諦|四谛[si4 di4]/