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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Han character

(radical 9 +5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人中中弓 (OLLN), four-corner 25227)

  1. Buddha
  2. of Buddhism
  3. merciful person
  4. Buddhist image
  5. the dead (Jpn.)

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 99, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 517
  • Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 140, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4F5B

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale fat1, fat6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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[edit] Etymology 1

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

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

  1. France.

[edit] Etymology 2

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

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

  1. Buddhism.

[edit] Proper noun

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

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

[edit] Etymology 3

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

[edit] Noun

(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai , 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、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、何事思ひたまふぞ。おぼすらんこと、何事ぞ」

[edit] Proper noun

(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai , 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.

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(hangeul , , revised bul, pil, McCune-Reischauer pul, p'il)

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[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (fo2), (fu2), Wade-Giles fo2, fu2)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(phật, phất)

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