未來佛

Chinese

		has not come; future; coming has not come; future; coming; approaching; pending	Buddha; Buddhism
trad. (未來佛)		未來	佛
simp. (未来佛)		未来	佛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wèiláifó

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ ㄌㄞˊ ㄈㄛˊ

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bi⁵ lai² hoh⁷ / bi⁵ lai² huoh⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wèiláifó
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ ㄌㄞˊ ㄈㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wèiláifó
    • Wade–Giles: Wei⁴-lai²-fo²
    • Yale: Wèi-lái-fwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Weylaifor
    • Palladius: Вэйлайфо (Vɛjlajfo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵¹ laɪ̯³⁵ fu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bi⁵ lai² hoh⁷ [Phonetic: bi⁵ lai⁵ hoh⁷]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹ lai¹³⁻²¹ hɔʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bi⁵ lai² huoh⁷ [Phonetic: bi⁵ lai⁵ uoh⁷]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹ lai¹³⁻²¹ ^(h-)uoʔ²⁴/

Proper noun

未來佛

1. (Buddhism) Maitreya

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 彌勒 (“Maitreya; Laughing Buddha”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		彌勒, 彌勒佛, 彌勒菩薩
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	彌勒佛
	Singapore	彌勒佛, 彌勒菩薩
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	彌羅佛
	Yangzhou	彌陀, 笑佛, 彌勒佛
Cantonese	Hong Kong	彌勒佛
Gan	Nanchang	彌勒佛
Hakka	Meixian	摁肚伯公
	Yudu	大肚羅漢
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	彌勒佛, 彌提
Southern Min	Xiamen	肥勒, 肥勒爺
	Quanzhou	肥勒
	Zhangzhou	肥勒, 肥勒佛, 阿肥勒佛仔
	Jieyang	彌勒佛
Puxian Min	Putian	未來佛
	Xianyou	未來佛
Xiang	Changsha	和合菩薩

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “未来佛”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 37.