僧 — Chinese character
僧
sēng
Buddhist priest, monk
- Pinyin
- sēng
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 亻 曾
- Formation
- pictophonetic — person; meaning component 亻; sound component 曾
- Japanese
- 僧 as a kanji
Common words with 僧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 僧人 | sēng rén | monk |
| 僧侣 (僧侶) | sēng lǚ | monk |
| 高僧 | gāo sēng | a senior monk |
| 僧尼 | sēng ní | (Buddhist) monks and nuns |
| 僧伽 | sēng qié | (Buddhism) sangha; the monastic community |
| 僧俗 | sēng sú | Buddhist monks and secular people |
| 苦行僧 | kǔ xíng sēng | ascetic monk |
| 贫僧 (貧僧) | pín sēng | (humble) I (used by Buddhist monks) |
| 僧院 | sēng yuàn | abbey; Buddhist monastery |
| 僧多粥少 | sēng duō zhōu shǎo | lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom); fig. not enough to go around |
| 圣僧 (聖僧) | shèng sēng | senior monk |
| 僧徒 | sēng tú | Buddhist monks |
English words written with 僧
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.