释迦牟尼

釋迦牟尼
Shìjiāmóuní
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)

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Entry Composition

1 释迦 Shìjiā
  1. Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged
  2. the Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼 Shìjiāmóuní, Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas")
2 牟 móu
  1. barley
  2. to moo
  3. to seek or obtain
  4. old variant of 侔 móu
  5. old variant of 眸 móu
3 尼 ní
  1. Buddhist nun
  2. (often used in phonetic spellings)