菩薩蠻

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Chinese

bodhisattva; kind-hearted person; kind and charitable person
barbarian; bullying; very
barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
 
trad. (菩薩蠻) 菩薩
simp. (菩萨蛮) 菩萨
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Etymology 1

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Noun

菩薩蠻

  1. (poetry) name of a cipai

Etymology 2

Phono-semantic matching of Classical Persian مسلمان (musalmān).

Noun

菩薩蠻

  1. (obsolete, used during the Song dynasty) Muslim