佛珠

Chinese

		Buddha; Buddhism	pearl; bead
simp. and trad. (佛珠)		佛	珠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fózhū

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄛˊ ㄓㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat⁶ zyu¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fud⁵ zu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hu̍t-chu / pu̍t-chu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fózhū
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄛˊ ㄓㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fójhu
    • Wade–Giles: fo²-chu¹
    • Yale: fwó-jū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: forju
    • Palladius: фочжу (fočžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu̯ɔ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fózhūr
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄛˊ ㄓㄨㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fójhur
    • Wade–Giles: fo²-chu¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: fwó-jūr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: forjul
    • Palladius: фочжур (fočžur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu̯ɔ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂuɻʷ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fat⁶ zyu¹
    • Yale: faht jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁹ dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed⁶ ju¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚² t͡syː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fud⁵ zu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fut̚¹ t͡su⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu̍t-chu
    • Tâi-lô: hu̍t-tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hudzw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hut̚⁴⁻³² t͡su⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pu̍t-chu
    • Tâi-lô: pu̍t-tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pudzw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /put̚⁴⁻³² t͡su⁴⁴/

Noun

佛珠

1. (Buddhism) prayer beads

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 數珠 (“prayer beads; rosary”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		數珠, 念珠, 佛珠
Mandarin	Beijing	數珠兒, 念珠兒
	Yangzhou	佛珠子
Gan	Lichuan	念佛珠
Hakka	Meixian	佛珠
	Yudu	佛珠, 念珠
Jin	Taiyuan	念珠
Northern Min	Jian'ou	彌陀珠
Southern Min	Xiamen	數珠, 香珠, 捾珠
	Zhangzhou	捾珠
	Tainan	數珠, 念珠, 佛珠
Wu	Wenzhou	念佛珠珠, 拜佛珠珠

Derived terms

• 老虎掛念佛珠／老虎挂念佛珠