如是

如是

1. (literary) like this; so; such

   • 莊王怪而問曰：「寡人德薄，又未嘗異子，子何故出死不疑如是？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     庄王怪而问曰：「寡人德薄，又未尝异子，子何故出死不疑如是？」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 77 B.C.E., 劉向 (Liu Xiang), 《說苑》 (Garden of Stories), chapter 6

     Zhuāngwáng guài ér wèn yuē: “Guǎrén débó, yòu wèicháng yì zǐ, zǐ hégù chūsǐ bù yí rúshì?” [Pinyin]

     King Zhuang thought it strange, and asked him, "I am not a particularly virtuous person, nor have I granted you any special favors. Why would you fight like this, as if your life depended on it?"

• (literary) 如此 (rúcǐ)

From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 如是 (MC nyo dzyeX). Used to translate Sanskrit एवम् (evam, “such, thus”).[1][2]

First cited to the Buddhist text 勝鬘経義疏 (Shōmangyō Gisho), part of the 三経義疏 (Sangyō Gisho) dated to 611.[1] The text is written in 漢文 (kanbun), a kind of specialized Classical Chinese adapted slightly for Japanese readers. The first citation in a definitively Japanese-language text might not be until the 正法眼蔵 (Shōbōgenzō) compiled during the years 1231–53.[1]

• (Tokyo) にょ​ぜ [nyóꜜzè] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟o̞ze̞]

如(にょ)是(ぜ) • (nyoze) 

1. [from 611] (Buddhism) like this
2. [from mid-1200s] (Buddhism) short for 十如是 (jū-nyoze): the ten thusnesses of the Tendai sect
3. [from mid-1200s] (Buddhism) expression of approval of something said by another person

• 如(にょ)是(ぜ)我(が)聞(もん) (nyoze gamon, “thus I hear”)
• 十(じゅう)如(にょ)是(ぜ) (jū-nyoze, “ten thusnesses of the Tendai sect”)