释迦牟尼

shì jiā móu ní

Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)

释

shì

to explain

迦

jiā

(phonetic sound for Buddhist terms)

牟

móu

barley

尼

ní

(often used in phonetic spellings)