活菩薩

Chinese

		to live; alive; living to live; alive; living; work; workmanship	bodhisattva; kind-hearted person; kind and charitable person
trad. (活菩薩)		活	菩薩
simp. (活菩萨)		活	菩萨
Literally: “a living bodhisattva”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huópúsà

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄆㄨˊ ㄙㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wut⁶ pou⁴ saat³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huópúsà → huópúsa (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄆㄨˊ ㄙㄚˋ → ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄆㄨˊ ˙ㄙㄚ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huópúså
    • Wade–Giles: huo²-pʻu²-sa⁵
    • Yale: hwó-pú-sa
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwopwu.sah
    • Palladius: хопуса (xopusa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ³⁵ pʰu³⁵ sä⁵¹/ → /xu̯ɔ³⁵ pʰu³⁵ sä³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wut⁶ pou⁴ saat³
    • Yale: wuht pòuh saat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wut⁹ pou⁴ saat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: wud⁶ pou⁴ sad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːt̚² pʰou̯²¹ saːt̚³/

Noun

活菩薩

1. (figurative, sometimes ironic) a kind-hearted, merciful, and helpful person

Related terms

• 菩薩／菩萨 (púsà)