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禅杖
chán​zhàng HSK7

monk's staff

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
禅杖 禪杖 chán​zhàng
monk's staff
a Buddhist staff; originally a bamboo stick used to wake up those falling asleep during meditation, later a general term for a staff carried by a monk or abbot as a symbol of authority

Frequency

Written text
0.385 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 根 gēn

Same as

  • 锡杖 xī​zhàng

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)