漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
仏: Buddha, the dead
Also: France
JLPT N24 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 厶 gives the sound
4 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
ブツbutsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 仏像ぶつぞうBuddhist image or statue
- 仏壇ぶつだんBuddhist altar
- 仏陀ぶっだBuddha
- 仏教ぶっきょうBuddhism
- 大仏だいぶつlarge statue of Buddha
- 神仏しんぶつ(Shinto) deities and Buddhas
- 念仏ねんぶつBuddhist prayer
- 石仏せきぶつstone statue of Buddha
フツfutsu · on'yomi
- 仏文ふつぶんFrench literature
ほとけhotoke · kun'yomi · on its own
- 仏ほとけBuddha
- 喉仏のどぼとけAdam's apple
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as 亻 (meaning) + 弗 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 佛 (rev. 93879508), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A person (人) + private/secret (厶). A "person" who has attained a "secret" and profound enlightenment that is hidden from the ordinary world—representing a Buddha.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 厶 family reads シ (shi); 仏 is read ブツ、フツ.
Also read ブツ
1 kanji shares this on'yomiIn ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 佛 · fú
仏 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 佛 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 佛 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 佛 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fú most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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