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Hua Tou ( simplified Chinese: 话头; traditional Chinese: 話頭, Korean: hwadu, Japanese: watō) is part of a form of Buddhist meditation known as Gongfu 工夫 (not to be confused with the Martial Arts 功夫 ) common in the teachings of Chan Buddhism, Korean Seon and Rinzai Zen. Hua Tou can be translated as 'word head', 'head of speech' or ...
Mapo tofu. Mapo tofu ( Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. [1] It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, based on douban (fermented broad bean and chili paste), and douchi (fermented black beans), along with minced meat, traditionally ...
Tau ( / ˈtɔː, ˈtɒ, ˈtaʊ /; [1] uppercase Τ, lowercase τ or ; Greek: ταυ [taf]) is the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive IPA: [t]. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 300. The name in English is pronounced / taʊ / or / tɔː /, [2] but in Greek it is [taf].
This 1888 painting by William Holmes Sullivan is named Et tu Brute and is located in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Photograph of the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar, the scene in which Julius Caesar ( Joseph Holland, center) addresses the conspirators including Brutus ( Orson Welles, left). Et tu, Brute? ( pronounced [ɛt ˈtuː ...
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈθaʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils ). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" ( mille in Latin).
Trinitarian formula. The Trinitarian formula is the phrase "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" ( Koinē Greek: εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος, romanized: eis to ónoma toû Patros kai toû Huioû kai toû Hagíou Pneúmatos ...
Romanization. kōtō or historical kaitō (noun); nukazuku or nukatsuku or nukadzuku (verb) A kowtow / ˈkaʊtaʊ / is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. In Sinospheric culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence.
þu, abbreviation for thou, from Adam and Eve, from a ca. 1415 manuscript, England. In Old English, thou was governed by a simple rule: thou addressed one person, and ye more than one. Beginning in the 1300s thou was gradually replaced by the plural ye as the form of address for a superior person and later for an equal.