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檀越
tán​yuè

benefactor

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
檀越 tán​yuè
benefactor
(Buddhism) a donor or almsgiver; a respectful term used by Buddhist monks to address a lay person who supports the temple.

Frequency

Written text
0.149 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 檀樾 tán​yuè

Synonym

  • 施主 shī​zhǔ

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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