念佛
niàn fó
Pinyin

Definition

念佛
 - 
niàn fó
  1. to pray to Buddha
  2. to chant the names of Buddha

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

fǎng fú
  1. 1 variant: 仿佛 fǎng fú
  1. 1 Buddha
  2. 2 Buddhism
niàn
  1. 1 variant: 念 niàn
  2. 2 to read aloud
sī niàn
  1. 1 to think of
  2. 2 to long for
  3. 3 to miss
xiǎng niàn
  1. 1 to miss
  2. 2 to remember with longing
  3. 3 to long to see again

Idioms (15)

不念旧恶
bù niàn jiù è
  1. 1 do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
不看僧面看佛面
bù kàn sēng miàn kàn fó miàn
  1. 1 lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
佛口蛇心
fó kǒu shé xīn
  1. 1 words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced
  2. 2 malicious and duplicitous
借花献佛
jiè huā xiàn Fó
  1. 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
  2. 2 plagiarism
家家有本难念的经
jiā jiā yǒu běn nán niàn de jīng
  1. 1 Every family goes through its problems. (idiom)