zī​liú

Buddhist monks

  • created sense approved 缁流/緇流 · zī​liú · Buddhist monks — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    缁流 / 緇流

    zī​liú

    Buddhist monks

    (literary) Buddhist monks; the clergy. Derived from the tradition of monks wearing black robes, as [[缁|緇|zi1]] means black.

    缁 (literal) → 缁/緇 · zī · Buddhist monk 流 (literal) → 流 · liú · class

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense