释迦ShìjiāTop 40000Meanings1. Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged2. the Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼 (Shìjiāmóuní), Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas")Characters used释to explain迦used in transliterations