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I realize that 仏陀 is probably more common in writing where the reading is
ambiguous anyway, but I am curious to know: do people tend to read it as ぶつだ
or ブッダ? For what it's worth, my IME recognizes both, and the one time I did
hear it in speech it was ブッダ.
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pronunciation readings
Which is the more common reading of 仏陀 - ぶつだ or ブッダ?
[https://furigana.info/w/仏陀](https://furigana.info/w/%E4%BB%8F%E9%99%80)
(based on old fiction): 60% of ぶっだ >< 30% of ぶつだ (plus weird people who want
to spell ほとけ thus and similar).

kanshudo.com/searchq?q=仏陀 (based on modern use): 90% ぶっだ >< 10% ぶつだ.

Thus, it at least seems that ぶっだ is the more popular reading, and ぶつだ actually
loses prominence.
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Aeon.

Before you learn which is better, you have to know that _furigara_ is not the
same as pronunciation. Certainly _furigana_ shows us how to read its _kanji_ ,
but we sometimes don't write small _hiragana_ or _katakana_ because we didn't
have such sounds before Kamakura Period. _Hiragana_ and _katakana_ are not so
precise phonograms.

The answer is Buddha, ブッダ. I've never seen the form, ぶつだ, but it may be a sort
of old way to write or miswritten.

Furthermore, most of people do not call him Buddha, but _Hotoke(sama)_ or
_Oshaka(sama)_ instead. _Sama_ is a suffix like title which used to call
someone else out of respect.
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