菩薩蠻

Chinese

		bodhisattva; kind-hearted person; kind and charitable person	barbarian; bullying; very barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
trad. (菩薩蠻)		菩薩	蠻
simp. (菩萨蛮)		菩萨	蛮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): púsàmán

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˊ ㄙㄚˋ ㄇㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: púsàmán
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ ㄙㄚˋ ㄇㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: púsàmán
    • Wade–Giles: pʻu²-sa⁴-man²
    • Yale: pú-sà-mán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwusahman
    • Palladius: пусамань (pusamanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵ sä⁵¹ män³⁵/

Etymology 1

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Noun

菩薩蠻

1. (poetry) name of a cipai

Etymology 2

Phono-semantic matching of Classical Persian مسلمان (musalmān).

Noun

菩薩蠻

1. (obsolete, used during the Song dynasty) Muslim