降龙罗汉

降龍羅漢
Xiánglóng Luóhàn
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the Dragon-Taming Arhat, one of the Eighteen Arhats of Chinese Buddhism

Examples

HSK 7-9
Xiánglóng Luóhàn shì shíbā luóhàn zhīyī.
The Dragon-Taming Arhat is one of the Eighteen Arhats.
HSK 7-9
Mínjiān chuánshuō Jìgōng shì Xiánglóng Luóhàn zhuǎnshì.
Folk legend says Jigong was the Dragon-Taming Arhat reborn.

Tips

mistakes
降 here is xiáng 'to subdue', as in 投降, not jiàng 'to fall'.
culture
Temples show him with a dragon, beside the Tiger-Taming Arhat (伏虎罗汉) with his tiger, and the pair gave the idiom 降龙伏虎. The Eighteen Arhats grew from an older Indian list of sixteen, and these two are the ones most often named as the Chinese additions.

Stroke Order

降 jiàng
龙 lóng
罗 luó
汉 hàn