Illustration: Inside a quiet Japanese Buddhist temple hall, a seated Buddha statue rests cross-legged on a lotus pedestal. Its tightly curled hair, rounded cranial protuberance, elongated earlobes and calm lowered eyes are clearly visible.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

仏ほとけ

hotoke

Buddha

Example sentences

  1. あの人ひとは仏ほとけのような人ひとだ。

    He is a saint of a man.

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  2. もう神かみも仏ほとけもない。

    Now there is neither God nor Buddha.

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  3. これは読経どきょうをともない仏ほとけを賛美さんびするものと考かんがえられる。

    It is considered to be accompanied with sutra chanting in praise of the Buddha.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 仏

  • 仏Buddha; the deadOnブツ・フツKunほとけ

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