Budai

English Budai Township, Chiayi County Alternative forms en Putai Etymology en cmn ^布袋 cloth sack. Pronunciation bo͞oʹdīʹen 1952 Putai Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1535 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1535/ 2 Putai (bo͞oʹdīʹ), Jap. [Japanese] Hotei (hōʹtā), en Bu dai Proper noun en Buddhism A 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha. en urban township county/Chiayi c/Taiwan. en June 03, 2007 Conservationists head to Putai to study `living fossils' w:Taipei Times https://web.archive.org/web/20071013043812/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/06/03/2003363605 October 13, 2007 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/06/03/2003363605 1563-9525 464696902 CNA Taiwan News 2 Members of several wildlife conservation groups went on a field trip to a salt marsh in Putai (zh 布袋), Chiayi City, yesterday to witness Asian horseshoe crabs, known as one of the few "living fossil" species in Taiwan, which have been sighted recently on the coast near Chiayi City.Five adult and 32 young Asian horseshoe crabs, tachypleus tridentatus, whose appearance on Earth can be dated back to 200 million years ago, have been sighted on the coast of Putai, making it the third place in the country to witness the appearance of the crabs after sightings were reported on the outlying island of Kinmen and in the Penghu (zh 澎湖) archipelago, Chiayi County officials said on Friday. on en September 27, 2015 Chen Wei-han Human activity blamed for dwindling spoonbills in Tainan w:Taipei Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150929004407/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/09/27/2003628711 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/09/27/2003628711 September 29, 2015 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 3 Institute researcher Chen Tien-shui (zh 陳添水) said that development surrounding Tsengwen and Sihcao, especially the expansion of a local fish farming industry that has replaced seasonal, shallow ponds with permanent deeper pools, has reduced the food supply and forced the spoonbills to move to wetlands in Putai (zh 布袋) and Beimen (zh 北門) townships and Kaohsiung City’s Cieding wetlands (zh 茄萣溼地). on en 07/07/2025 Christie Chen Typhoon Danas makes landfall in Taiwan's Chiayi County w:Focus Taiwan https://web.archive.org/web/20250706211246/https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202507070001 https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202507070001 July 06, 2025 Society The eye of Typhoon Danas made landfall in Chiayi County's Budai Township in southwestern Taiwan at 11:40 p.m. Sunday, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). Noun A statue or image of Budai. en She gifted me a Budai on my birthday. Translations Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 布袋, cmn 笑佛, cmn 胖佛, cmn 快樂佛 Japanese: ja 布袋 Korean: ko 포대 Lao: lo ບູໄດ Sanskrit: sa Thai: th บูได Tibetan: bo Vietnamese: vi Bố Đại References Anagrams en abdiu Badiu Baidu Bádiu Dubai Ubaid en Buddhism Individuals en 2-syllable words Hungarian Etymology From hu Buda -i. Pronunciation Proper noun hu proper noun hu habitational Italian Etymology it Proper noun mfbysense it Friulian Further reading budai