tendai
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Mahayana Buddhist tradition with esoteric elements, officially established in Japan in 806 by the monk Saichō.
name
A unisex given name from Shona.
Example Sentences
- "Matida's three sons, Tendai, Ziteya and Chimbadzwe heard that their lives were in danger so they disappeared with their sister Chikadzi to Tandi's chiefdom under Makoni."
- "She herself asked that the students just call her by her first name, Tendai."
- "Tendai was seven years old. He lived in a village in the southern African country of Zimbabwe. His home was in a little settlement of neat mud and thatch huts. Tendai’s mother, father, elder brothers and sisters worked in the fields and the canning factory nearby."
Etymology
Japanese 天台.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 天台, Tendai
Inflected Forms
Tendais (plural)