卡巴拉

Kǎbālā

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Meanings

1 Kabbalah
2 Jewish mystical tradition based on esoteric reading of the Torah, especially the Sefer Yetzirah and Zohar

Characters

card (used phonetically: 'Ka-')

to long for (used phonetically: '-bba-')

to pull (used phonetically: '-lah')

Examples

卡巴拉是犹太教的神秘主义传统。

Kǎbālā shì Yóutàijiào de shénmìzhǔyì chuántǒng.

Kabbalah is a mystical tradition of Judaism.

他对卡巴拉的生命之树很感兴趣。

Tā duì Kǎbālā de Shēngmìng zhī Shù hěn gǎn xìngqù.

He's very interested in Kabbalah's Tree of Life.

Tips

culture

卡巴拉 transliterates Hebrew קַבָּלָה (Qabbālāh, 'received tradition'). Madonna's high-profile association with the Kabbalah Centre in the 2000s pushed the term into Chinese pop-culture vocabulary; in serious religious-studies texts you'll also see 卡巴拉教 ('Kabbalism').

Stroke Order

卡 kǎ

巴 bā

拉 lā