菩
- Meaning
- kind of grass sacred tree
- On reading
- ボ
- Kun reading
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- Nanori
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- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 140
- Grade
- 9
- JLPT
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- Frequency
- 2086
Stroke order
Words using 菩
- 菩薩 ぼさつ — bodhisattva
- 菩提樹 ぼだいじゅ — Tilia miqueliana (species of linden tree)
- 菩提 ぼだい — bodhi
- 菩提寺 ぼだいじ — one's family temple
- 如菩薩 にょぼさつ — being compassionate like a bodhisattva
- 菩提心 ぼだいしん — aspiration for Buddhahood
- 発菩提心 ほつぼだいしん — deciding to embrace Buddhism
- 菩提を弔う ぼだいをとむらう — to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras
- 弥勒菩薩 みろくぼさつ — Maitreya (Bodhisattva)
- 南無八幡大菩薩 なむはちまんだいぼさつ — O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!
- 菩提道場 ぼだいどうじょう — Bodhi-manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
- 普賢菩薩 ふげんぼさつ — Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva)
- 地蔵菩薩 じぞうぼさつ — Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)
- 菩提達磨 ぼだいだるま — Bodhidharma
- 多羅菩薩 たらぼさつ — Tara (female aspect of Avalokitesvara)
- 勢至菩薩 せいしぼさつ — Mahasthamaprapta (bodhisattva)
- 文殊菩薩 もんじゅぼさつ — Manjusri (Bodhisattva)
- 月光菩薩 がっこうぼさつ — Candraprabha (bodhisattva)
- 日光菩薩 にっこうぼさつ — Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)
- 妙見菩薩 みょうけんぼさつ — Myōken (bodhisattva; deification of the North Star or the Big Dipper)
- 虚空蔵菩薩 こくうぞうぼさつ — Akasagarbha (bodhisattva)
- 普賢延命菩薩 ふげんえんめいぼさつ — image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant)
- 薬王菩薩 やくおうぼさつ — Bhaisajyaraja (bodhisattva)
- 阿耨多羅三藐三菩提 あのくたらさんみゃくさんぼだい — anuttara samyak sambodhi (supreme perfect enlightenment)
- 菩提薩埵 ぼだいさった — bodhisattva
- 観世音菩薩 かんぜおんぼさつ — Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva)
- 観音菩薩 かんのんぼさつ — Kannon (Bodhisattva)
- 菩薩揚げ ぼさあげ — ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period)
- 仏菩薩 ぶつぼさつ — buddhas and bodhisattvas
- ベンガル菩提樹 ベンガルぼだいじゅ — Indian banyan (Ficus benghalensis)
- インド菩提樹 インドぼだいじゅ — sacred fig (Ficus religiosa)
- 観自在菩薩 かんじざいぼさつ — Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva)
- 八幡大菩薩 はちまんだいぼさつ — Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)
- 五大力菩薩 ごだいりきぼさつ — The Five Great Bodhisattvas (who uphold the Three Treasures and protect the sovereign)
- 外面如菩薩内心如夜叉 げめんにょぼさつないしんにょやしゃ — looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
- 女菩薩 にょぼさつ — compassionate and gentle woman (likened to a bodhisattva)
- 外面似菩薩内心如夜叉 げめんじぼさつないしんにょやしゃ — looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
- 大菩薩峠 だいぼさつとうげ — The Sword of Doom (1966 film)
- 地蔵菩薩本願経 じぞうぼさつほんがんきょう — Sutra of the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva