| 释迦牟尼 |
Shì jiā móu ní |
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama) |
| 释 |
shì |
to explain / to release / Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼) / Buddhism |
| 释迦 |
Shì jiā |
Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged / the Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼, Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas") |
| 释迦 |
shì jiā |
sugar apple (Annona squamosa) |
| 迦 |
jiā |
(phonetic sound for Buddhist terms) |
| 牟 |
Móu |
surname Mou |
| 牟 |
móu |
barley / to moo / to seek or obtain / old variant of 侔 / old variant of 眸 |
| 牟 |
mù |
used in 牟平 (the name of a place in Shandong) / used in 中牟 (the name of a place in Henan) |
| 尼 |
ní |
Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings) |