僧尼
sēng ní
Pinyin

Definition

僧尼
 - 
sēng ní
  1. (Buddhist) monks and nuns

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

唐僧
Táng sēng
  1. 1 Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645
威尼斯
Wēi ní sī
  1. 1 Venice
  2. 2 Venezia
尼
ní
  1. 1 Buddhist nun
  2. 2 (often used in phonetic spellings)
尼玛
Ní mǎ
  1. 1 Nyima county, Tibetan: Nyi ma rdzong in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Nà qǔ dì qū], central Tibet
丹尼尔
Dān ní ěr
  1. 1 Daniel (name)
亚美尼亚
Yà měi ní yà
  1. 1 Armenia, capital Yerevan 埃里溫|埃里温[Āi lǐ wēn]
僧人
sēng rén
  1. 1 monk
博洛尼亚
Bó luò ní yà
  1. 1 Bologna
印尼
Yìn ní
  1. 1 Indonesia (abbr. for 印度尼西亞|印度尼西亚)
印度尼西亚
Yìn dù ní xī yà
  1. 1 Indonesia
吉尼斯
Jí ní sī
  1. 1 Guinness (name)
哈尼
hā ní
  1. 1 honey (term of endearment) (loanword)
安东尼
Ān dōng ní
  1. 1 Anthony (name)
尼加拉瓜
Ní jiā lā guā
  1. 1 Nicaragua
尼古丁
ní gǔ dīng
  1. 1 nicotine (loanword)
尼姑
ní gū
  1. 1 Buddhist nun
尼康
Ní kāng
  1. 1 Nikon corporation
尼采
Ní cǎi
  1. 1 Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher
尼斯
Ní sī
  1. 1 Nice (city in France)
尼日利亚
Ní rì lì yà
  1. 1 Nigeria

Idioms (2)

不看僧面看佛面
bù kàn sēng miàn kàn fó miàn
  1. 1 lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
僧多粥少
sēng duō zhōu shǎo
  1. 1 lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. not enough to go around
  3. 3 demand exceeds supply

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