善財童子
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 善 | 財 | 童 | 子 |
| ぜん Grade: 6 |
ざい Grade: 5 |
どう Grade: 3 |
し > じ Grade: 1 |
| goon | kan’yōon | on’yomi | |
Etymology[edit]
Literary Chinese 善財童子 (literally “Boy of Good Wealth”), from Sanskrit सुधनकुमार (sudhanakumāra)
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
善財童子 • (Zenzai Dōji)
- Sudhana (main character of the 華厳経 (Kegonkyō, “Avatamsaka Sutra”), who acquired 善知識 (zenchishiki, “kalyāṇa-mittatā”, literally “good companionship”) from 53 bodhisattva from 文殊 (Monju, “Manjushri”) to 普賢 (Fugen, “Samantabhadra”))
See also[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 善 read as ぜん
- Japanese terms spelled with 財 read as ざい
- Japanese terms spelled with 童 read as どう
- Japanese terms spelled with 子 read as し
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms derived from Literary Chinese
- Japanese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with four Han script characters
- ja:Buddhist deities