菩萨

púsà · HSK 7

bodhisattva

🙏 púsà sounds like POO-sah; the kindhearted Bodhisattva who hears every prayer

菩萨 (púsà) is a Bodhisattva, also used for any deeply kindhearted person. Both characters carry the grass radical 艹 on top, marking them as a phonetic loan used to transcribe the Sanskrit bodhisattva.

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