薩
salvation; Buddha
17 strokes. Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names. Newspaper frequency rank 1984.
Readings
- サツ (on reading): 菩薩 (ぼさつ) bodhisattva; 地蔵菩薩 (じぞうぼさつ) Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)
- サチ (on reading)
Components
- 艹
- ⻖
- 産
- ノ radical slash, katakana no
- 亠 radical lid
- 厂 radical cliff
- 丷 radical horns, inverted eight
- ⺾ radical grass, top form of 艸
- ⻖ radical mound; hill, left-side form of 阜
- 生 radical life
- 立 radical stand
Words using 薩
- 菩薩 (ぼさつ) bodhisattva
- 地蔵菩薩 (じぞうぼさつ) Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)
- 観世音菩薩 (かんぜおんぼさつ) Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva)
- 薩摩 (さつま) Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture)
- 観音菩薩 (かんのんぼさつ) Kannon (Bodhisattva)
- 菩薩揚げ (ぼさあげ) ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period)
38 words in all.