不二

Chinese

		not; no	two
simp. and trad. (不二)		不	二

Etymology

nonduality

Calque of Sanskrit अद्वय (advaya).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bù'èr

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄦˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ji⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-jī / put-lī

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bù'èr
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄦˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bù-èr
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-êrh⁴
  - Yale: bù-èr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buell
  - Palladius: буэр (buer)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ˀɤɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ ji⁶
  - Yale: bāt yih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ ji⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jiː²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-jī
  - Tâi-lô: put-jī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putji
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ d͡zi²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ zi³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-lī
  - Tâi-lô: put-lī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putli
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ li²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/

Adjective

不二

the same
faithful; single-minded

Noun

不二

nonduality

Derived terms

不三不二
不二不異 / 不二不异
不二之法
不二之選 / 不二之选 (bù'èrzhīxuǎn)
不二價 / 不二价 (bù'èrjià)
不二心
不二法門 / 不二法门 (bù'èrfǎmén)
不二論 / 不二论 (bù'èrlùn)
不二門 / 不二门
劃一不二 / 划一不二
善惡不二 / 善恶不二
市不二價 / 市不二价
有空不二
說一不二 / 说一不二 (shuōyībù'èr)
誓死不二 (shìsǐ bù'èr)
食不二味

References

Advaita Vedanta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
不二論 / 不二论 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh

Further reading

Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “不二” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].

Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	二
ふ Grade: 4	じ Grade: 1

Noun

不(ふ)二(じ) • (fuji)

being two sides of the same coin

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
不	二

Noun

不二

chữ Hán form of bất nhị (“nondualism”)