Hotei

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 布袋 (Hotei), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 布袋 (pù-dòj "cloth sack") (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin Bùdài 布袋, Vietnamese Bố Đại), by metonymy "Man with the cloth sack", the "Laughing Buddha" figure associated with the Maitreya Buddha.

Proper noun

Hotei

1. (mythology, Shinto) The Chinese god Budai, the fat and happy god of abundance and good health, and one of the seven gods of luck.

Anagrams

• ethoi

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Japanese

Romanization

Hotei

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほてい