释迦

shì jiā

the Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2], Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas")

Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged; sugar apple (Annona squamosa)

释

shì

to explain

迦

jiā

(phonetic sound for Buddhist terms)