扫地僧 (Sǎo dì Sēng)

扫地僧

Sǎo dì Sēng

Traditional: 掃地僧

Meaning

Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel "Demigods and Semidevils" 天龙八部 (Tiān lóng Bā Bù))
(fig.) person whose remarkable talents are not well known

Characters and stroke order

扫 Sǎo

to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out

radical 64 ⼿ · 6 strokes

地 dì

earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a v

radical 32 ⼟ · 6 strokes

僧 Sēng

Buddhist priest, monk

radical 9 ⼈ · 14 strokes

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