布袋

Chinese

		cloth; fabric	a pouch; bag; sack a pouch; bag; sack; pocket
simp. and trad. (布袋)		布	袋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùdài

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou³ doi⁶ / bou³ doi^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pu-thoi
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pò͘-tē / pò͘-tēr

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùdài
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùdài
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tai⁴
    • Yale: bù-dài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buhday
    • Palladius: будай (budaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ taɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bou³ doi⁶ / bou³ doi^6-2
    • Yale: bou doih / bou dói
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou³ doi⁶ / bou³ doi^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou³ doi⁶ / bou³ doi^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²/, /pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pu-thoi
    • Hakka Romanization System: bu toi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bu⁴ toi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pu⁵⁵ tʰoi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pò͘-tē
    • Tâi-lô: pòo-tē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: porde
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ te³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ te³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pò͘-tēr
    • Tâi-lô: pòo-tēr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tə⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 布袋

1. fabric bag
2. son-in-law married into the daughter's family

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 布袋

1. (～鎮) Budai (an urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan)
2. Budai (Chinese folkloric deity)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
布	袋
ほ Grade: 5	たい > てい Grade: S

Proper noun

布(ほ)袋(てい) • (Hotei) 

1. (Shinto) The Japanese name for the Chinese god, Budai. The fat and happy god of abundance and good health. One of the seven gods of luck.

Related terms

• 福禄寿 (Fukurokuju): god of happiness, wealth and longevity.
• 恵比須 / 恵比寿 / 夷 / 戎 (Ebisu): god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream.
• 弁才天 / 弁財天 (べんざいてん, Benzaiten): The Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati. The goddess of knowledge, art, beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers.
• 吉祥天 (Kitsushōten): the goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.
• 毘沙門天 (びしゃもんてん, Bishamonten): god of warriors
• 大黒 / 大黒天 (Daikoku / Daikokuten): the god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops.
• 寿老人 (Jurōjin): the god of longevity.

See also

• 布袋 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• Hotei on Wikipedia.Wikipedia