菩薩

日本語 · 한국어 · 中文 · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

菩薩

  • púsà Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄆㄨˊ ㄙㄚˋ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • pu² sa¹ Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • pou⁴ saat³ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • pu² sat Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • phù-sat Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • pu² sad⁵ Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
  • pu¹ sa³ Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • pǔ-să Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • bù-sák Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • phô͘-sat Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • pu⁵ sag⁴ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁶bu-saq₇ Wu, Northern, Wugniu
  • ⁶bu₂-saeq₇ Wu, Northern, Wugniu
  • pu² sa⁶ Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • púsa Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄆㄨˊ ˙ㄙㄚ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • púså Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • pʻu²-sa⁵ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • pú-sa Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • pwu.sah Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • пуса Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /pʰu³⁵ sä⁵¹/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • /pʰu³⁵ sä³/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • pusa Mandarin, Chengdu, Latinxua Sin Wenz
  • /pʰu²¹ sa⁵⁵/ Mandarin, Chengdu, IPA
  • pou⁴ saat³ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou

Where it comes from

菩提薩埵/菩提萨埵的簡稱,源自梵語 बोधिसत्त्व (bodhi-sattva,“開悟的存在”)或巴利語 bodhisatta。後來在語義上引申指特別有德行的人。(Dassanayake (2021))

noun 菩萨

  1. 釋迦牟尼成佛前的稱號;泛指佛和某些神
  2. figuratively, 有時反語 樂善好施、心腸慈善的好人

Similar: 摩訶薩埵, 摩诃萨埵, 菩提薩埵, 菩提萨埵

proper noun 菩萨

  1. (~省) 柬埔寨的省
  2. (~市) 位於柬埔寨菩薩的城市

Thesaurus

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"菩薩." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%8F%A9%E8%96%A9. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

APA

菩薩. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%8F%A9%E8%96%A9

Chicago

"菩薩." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%8F%A9%E8%96%A9.

BibTeX
@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {菩薩},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%8F%A9%E8%96%A9},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}