凡夫 fánfū

  1. fánfū noun a commoner
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Opposite of a noble (Guoyu '凡夫')
  2. fánfū noun an ordinary person; pṛthagjana
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: pṛthagjana, or: bālapṛthagjana, Pali: puthujjana, Japanese: bonbu; a person that has not studied or practiced Buddhism to the level of a noble person (BL 'pṛthagjana'; Dhammajoti 2013, p. 154; Ding '凡夫'; FGDB '凡夫')

Contained in

  • 凡夫性 the disposition of an ordinary person

Also contained in

凡夫俗子

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 36 Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論 — count: 97
  • Scroll 4 Da Ban Niepan Jing Yi Ji 大般涅槃經義記 — count: 74
  • Scroll 34 Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論 — count: 73
  • Scroll 7 Da Ban Niepan Jing Yi Ji 大般涅槃經義記 — count: 56
  • Scroll 7 Abhidharmajñānaprasthānaśāstra (Apitan Ba Jiandu Lun) 阿毘曇八犍度論 — count: 55
  • Scroll 24 Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論 — count: 52
  • Scroll 3 Jingang Bore Lun Huishi 金剛般若論會釋 — count: 51
  • Scroll 3 Weimo Yi Ji 維摩義記 — count: 41
  • Scroll 95 Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論 — count: 40 , has English translation
  • Scroll 3 Shengman Bao Ku 勝鬘寶窟 — count: 38

Collocations

  • 闻凡夫 (聞凡夫) 彼寡聞凡夫以此歎佛 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 74
  • 愚痴凡夫 (愚癡凡夫) 世間所有愚癡凡夫 — Sutra on the Merit of Faith in the Buddha (Xin Fo Gongde Jing) 信佛功德經, Scroll 1 — count: 42
  • 凡夫人 (凡夫人) 及施滿閻浮場凡夫人食 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 39 — count: 31
  • 场凡夫 (場凡夫) 若復有施滿閻浮場凡夫食者 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 39 — count: 11
  • 阎浮提凡夫 (閻浮提凡夫) 施與閻浮提凡夫人 — Sudatta Sutta (Velāma) 須達經, Scroll 1 — count: 10
  • 凡夫行 (凡夫行) 為凡夫行 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 43 — count: 10
  • 凡夫地 (凡夫地) 越凡夫地 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 9
  • 凡夫乐 (凡夫樂) 非聖樂是凡夫樂 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 43 — count: 7
  • 在凡夫 (在凡夫) 住在凡夫地 — Yangjuemoluo Jing (Aṅgulimālīyasūtra) 央掘魔羅經, Scroll 2 — count: 4
  • 凡夫不能 (凡夫不能) 愚癡無聞凡夫不能生厭 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 4