布莫

Bùmò

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Meanings

1 a foreign-name transliteration (uncommon)
2 used for surnames like Bumo, Bumeau, or for Yi-language clan names

Characters

cloth (transliteration: Bu-)

do not (transliteration: -mo)

Examples

凉山彝族的传统祭司被称为布莫。

Liángshān Yízú de chuántǒng jìsī bèi chēng wèi bùmò.

The traditional priests of the Liangshan Yi people are called bimo (here written 布莫).

故事里的布莫是一位神秘的旅人。

Gùshi lǐ de Bùmò shì yī wèi shénmì de lǚrén.

The Bumo in the story is a mysterious traveler.

Tips

culture

Most often a transliteration variant of 毕摩 (bìmó), the Yi-people priest-shaman class — keepers of the Yi script and ritual texts of southern Sichuan and Yunnan. As a generic foreign-name rendering it can also stand in for Western surnames like 'Bumo' or 'Bumeau'.

memory

布 (bù, 'cloth') + 莫 (mò, 'do not') as transliteration syllables — neither character's lexical meaning matters here; they're chosen purely for sound.

Stroke Order

布 bù

莫 mò