Chinese

佛教

Fójiào
Buddhism
  • HSK 6
  • TOCFL 5
  • 佛敎

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  • characterChinese佛 “Buddha; The Enlightened One”
    • meaningChinese人 “man; person; people (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 h)”
    • soundChinese弗 “not correctly; not exactly; not quite”
  • characterChinese教 “to teach; to instruct”
    • soundChinese爻 “a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines; a hexagram of the I Ching”
      • componentChinese乂 “original form of 刈 (yì, “to weed; to mow”)”
    • meaningChinese子 “child; offspring; descendant”
    • meaningChinese攴 “to hit lightly; to tap”

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