kwan-yin
冠英,观音,观音阁,观音菩萨
Definitions
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Buddhism.
- : one of the Chinese female Boddhisattvas, noted for her kindness: often considered an aspect of Avalokitesvara.
Examples
Victoria and Zoe Yin, who hail from Boston, were both deemed child prodigies at young ages.
You just have to find that yin of decency and locate the gestures and words that smother the yang of fear.
Nu Nu Yin, 30, left her accounting job in August to open Fantastic Inle Travel & Tours with her lover.
“Last year fishermen were real fishermen, now they are just for show, for tourists in the lake,” Yin says.
While it was a lifetime achievement for Goebel, it was another dour disappointment for Kwan: another Olympics and no gold medal.
An' yet, mind ye, Smillie seemed to me to be a straight-forret man an' yin that was sincere.
She sells hersel' an' it's no worth while complainin' if the bargain turns oot a rotten yin.
Mag ay cried that it was best to mak' a splash aboot the things you did; but, by sirs, she has made yin this time.
He's a corker, wi' a face like yin o' they pented cupids that the lasses send to the young men on picture postcards.
Of these several tribes the Chilkat-kwan has been the most prominent since our acquaintance with Alaska.