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Budai

Syllables: Bu·dai

Budai proper noun: a 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha.

Proper noun

Budai

  1. A 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha.
  2. An urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.
    • Members of several wildlife conservation groups went on a field trip to a salt marsh in Putai (布袋), Chiayi City, yesterday to witness Asian horseshoe crabs, known as one of the few "living fossil" species in Taiwan, which have been sighted recently on the coast near Chiayi City.[…]
      Five adult and...[2007 June 3, “Conservationists head to Putai to study `living fossils'”, in Taipei Times, sourced from CNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2007, Taiwan News, page 2
    • Institute researcher Chen Tien-shui (陳添水) said that development surrounding Tsengwen and Sihcao, especially the expansion of a local fish farming industry that has replaced seasonal, shallow ponds with permanent deeper pools, has reduced the food supply and forced the spoonbills to move to wetlands...[2015 September 27, Chen Wei-han, “Human activity blamed for dwindling spoonbills in Tainan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2015, Taiwan News, page 3

Noun

Budai (plural Budais)

  1. A statue or image of Budai.
    • She gifted me a Budai on my birthday.

Budai meaning in Thai and Vietnamese

Budai in Thai

Translations
บูได

Budai in Vietnamese

Translations
Bố Đại

Forms of Budai

Proper noun
alternative formPutai
Noun
pluralBudais

Origin of Budai

Derived from Mandarin 布袋 (Bùdài, “cloth sack”).

Questions about Budai

What does Budai mean?
Budai means a 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha.
What is Budai in Thai?
Budai in Thai is บูได. See Budai meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is Budai?
Budai can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Budai in the dictionary

  1. Buda
  2. Buda-Kashalyova
  3. Buda-Pest
  4. Budac
  5. budae jjigae
  6. Budai
  7. Budais
  8. Budan's theorem
  9. Budapest
  10. Budapester
  11. Budapesters

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