掃地僧 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 扫地僧 sǎodìsēng ㄙㄠˇ ㄉㄧˋ ㄙㄥ Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel "Demigods and Semidevils" 天龙八部 tiānlóngbābù) person whose remarkable talents are not well known fig. Character by character 掃(sǎo)sweep 地(dì)earth 僧(sēng)Buddhist monk A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0