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沙弥
shā​mí

novice monk

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
沙弥 沙彌 shā​mí
novice monk
a male novice Buddhist monk who has taken ten vows but is not yet fully ordained; commonly refers to a young monk between the ages of 7 and 20

Frequency

Written text
0.390 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 位 wèi

Same as

  • 童真 tóng​zhēn

Synonym

  • 小僧 xiǎo​sēng

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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