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Bồ Tát

Pronunciation Northern /ɓo̤˨˩ taːt˧˥/ Central /ɓo˧˧ ta̰ːk˩˧/ Southern /ɓo˨˩ taːk˧˥/
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bodhisattva
Noun
bodhisattva
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Meaning
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Sense 1 Noun
bodhisattva

A person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion.

vi Những người có lòng tốt thường được ví như Bồ Tát.

en Kind people are often compared to a bodhisattva.

Sense 2 Noun
bodhisattva

a case-variant form of bồ tát, an enlightened being in Buddhism.

Parts
bồ / tát / 菩薩
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Chinese characters Source-aligned
Representative candidate
菩薩
Candidates by syllable
bồ 菩(耙 / 蒲 / 𪇨) tát 撒
Bold marks the representative form aligned to a source as the spelling of the whole word. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. Source and confidence are shown in the heading above.
Similar
to tát / còn nước còn tát / ma ha tát
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Use
cao đài tiên ông đại bồ tát ma ha tát / bồ tát quan thế âm / bồ bịch / cặp bồ …
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