扫地僧
Traditional form:
掃地僧
Pinyin (reading):
Sǎodì Sēng
Definitions:
- Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel "Demigods and Semidevils" 天龍八部／天龙八部 ( Tiānlóng Bā Bù))
- (fig.) person whose remarkable talents are not well known
Characters:
- 扫 - to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 僧 - Buddhist priest, monk
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