仏

See also 佛

Translingual

Etymology

see 佛

Han character

仏 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人戈 (OI), X人戈 (XOI), composition ⿰亻厶)

1. Buddha

References

• KangXi: page 92, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 364
• Dae Jaweon: page 195, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 110, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4ECF

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Japanese

Kanji

仏 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 佛)

1. Buddha
2. France (from 仏蘭西)

Readings

• On: ぶつ (butsu), ふつ (futsu), ほつ (hotsu)
• Kun: ほとけ (hotoke)

Compounds

Compounds

仏教 (bukkyō): Buddhism 仏像 (butsuzō): Buddhist image 仏壇 (butsudan): household Buddhist altar 仏陀 (budda): Buddha 仏様 (hotokesama): Buddha, deceased person 仏語 (futsugo): French language 仏文 (futsubun): French literature 仏印 (futsuin): French Indochina 仏文学 (futsubungaku): French literature

仏英辞典 (futsuei jiten): French-English dictionary 石仏 (sekibutsu): stone Buddhist image 大仏 (daibutsu): large statue of Buddha 念仏 (nenbutsu): Buddhist prayer 神仏 (shinbutsu): gods and Buddha 日仏 (nichifutsu): Japan and France 仏典 (butten): Buddhist scriptures, sutras 廃仏毀釈 (haibutsu kishaku): anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of ateji term 仏蘭西 (ふらんす, Furansu) (“France”).

Proper noun

仏 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 佛, hiragana ふつ, romaji Futsu)

1. France.

Etymology 2

From Sinitic 佛陀 (Fó​tuó), itself from Sanskrit Buddha.

Noun

仏 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 佛, hiragana ぶつ, romaji butsu)

1. Buddhism.

Proper noun

仏 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 佛, hiragana ぶつ, romaji Butsu)

1. Abbreviation of 仏陀 (ぶっだ, Budda) (“Buddha”).

Etymology 3

ほとけ (hotoke): hoto from Sinitic 佛陀 (Fó​tuó), itself from Sanskrit Buddha; ke probably the suffix 気 (ke), possibly added to signify mystical or visible.

Noun

仏 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 佛, hiragana ほとけ, romaji hotoke)

1. A Buddha: an enlightened or awakened sentient being.
2. A statue or image of any Buddha.
3. The deceased, a departed soul.
4. A term that a parent calls a child expressing parental affection: "my dear".
   • c. 890: Taketori Monogatari (page 7)

     「我子の仏、変化の人と申ながら、こゝら大きさまでやしなひたてまつる心ざし、をろかならず。 [...]」

   • c. 890: Taketori Monogatari (page 61)

     「あが仏、何事思ひたまふぞ。おぼすらんこと、何事ぞ」

Proper noun

仏 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 佛, hiragana ほとけ, romaji Hotoke)

1. Śākyamuni Buddha, Nepalese spiritual and philosophical teacher and founder of Buddhism; Siddhartha Gautama.
2. Any of the other Buddhas named in Buddhist scriptures.

References

• 1997, Hideaki Horiuchi; Ken Akiyama, Taketori Monogatari , Ise Monogatari, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240017-4:

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Korean

Hanja

仏 (hangeul 불, revised bul, McCune-Reischauer pul, Yale pwul)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

仏 (pinyin fó (fo2), Wade-Giles fo²)