The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kwan-yin
Kwan yin \Kwan yin\, Kwan-yin \Kwan-yin\prop. n. (Buddhism) A female Bodhisattva; often called Goddess of Mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon.
Syn: Kuan Yin.
Usage examples of "kwan-yin".
Two lofty cabinets of fine Chinese lacquer-work faced one another across the width of the carpeted floor, and an almost life-sized Kwan-Yin gazed serenely down the corridor at them from beneath a gilded medieval baldachin.