Character: 佛
Modern (Beijing) reading: fó
Preclassic Old Chinese: bǝt
Classic Old Chinese: bǝt
Western Han Chinese: bǝt
Eastern Han Chinese: bwǝt
Early Postclassic Chinese: bwɨt
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bwɨt
Late Postclassic Chinese: bwɨt
Middle Chinese: büt
English meaning : be great
Russian meaning[s]: 1) Будда; буддизм; буддийский; бог; 2) яп. Франция
Comments: Also read *phǝt, MC phüt, Mand. fú in 仿佛 *phaŋʔ-phǝt 'be similar'. After Han the character is most widely used with the meaning 'Buddha' ( < Sanskrit); for *b cf. Xiamen put8. Viet. bụt 'Buddha' is an older loanword; regular Sino-Viet. is phật.
Radical: 9
Four-angle index: 4661
Karlgren code: 0500 l
Vietnamese reading: bụt
