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觀世音菩薩 (gun1 sai3 jam1 pou4 saat3) — 觀音菩薩 in Cantonese

gunˉ¹觀sai˗₃世jamˉ¹音pouˎ₄菩saat˗₃薩
简 观世音菩萨
Mandarin Pinyin: guan1 shi4 yin1 pu2 sa4

Meaning of 觀世音菩薩

noun觀音菩薩
noun觀音
nounthe Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Kuan Yin, he is generally portrayed as female in oriental Buddhism and called the Goddess of Mercy)

Characters in 觀世音菩薩

觀gun1
view; sight; appearance
世sai3
world
音jam1
musical note
菩pou4
Mainly used in transliteration of Buddhist terms, such as bodhi, Bodhisattva, etc
薩saat3
transliteration of the 'sat' syllable in 'boddhisattva' etc

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