须弥 (須彌)
Xū mí
Pinyin
Definition
须弥 (須彌)
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- Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition
- Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gù yuán], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to have to
- 2 must
- 3 compulsory
- 4 necessarily
- 1 there is no need
- 2 why should
- 1 to pervade
- 2 to fill the air
- 3 diffuse
- 4 everywhere present
- 5 about to inundate (water)
- 6 permeated by (smoke)
- 7 filled with (dust)
- 8 to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- 1 to complement
- 2 to make up for a deficiency
- 1 need not
- 2 not obliged to
- 3 not necessarily
Idioms (5)
弥天大谎
- 1 a pack of lies (idiom)
欲盖弥彰
- 1 trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
历久弥坚
- 1 to become more resolute with the passing of time (idiom)
牡丹虽好,终须绿叶扶持
- 1 Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
解铃还须系铃人
- 1 lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom)
- 2 fig. whoever started the trouble should end it