帛

Readings

Pinyin: bó

Wade-Giles: po

Hangul: 백

Korean MC: baek

Korean MR: paek

Katakana: ビャク

Hepburn: byaku

white silk

• Undyed silk; silk fabrics. [繒][resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Gakken,]
• White silk offered before an altar. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Gakken]
• (Skt. paṭa-śukla, uṣṇīṣa) Anything wound round the head, turban, fillet; a kind of excrescence on the head of Buddha. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, M-W]

Dictionary References:

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0418

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4193b

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