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寺
JLPT N2 SL2 6 strokes Frequency: #879

Meanings

Buddhist Temple

Radicals

寸

Decomposition

⿱土寸

Etymology

Ideographic: An offering 土 in your hand 寸

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 vertical right-to-left
3 horizontal bottom-to-top
4 horizontal bottom-to-top
5 hook bottom-right-to-top-left
6 dot bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ジ ji
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
てら tera

Words Using This Kanji

86 words total
Other (20 words)
古社寺 こしゃじ

old shrines and temples

山寺 やまでら

mountain temple

寺院 じいん

Buddhist temple

寺 てら

temple (Buddhist)

禅寺 ぜんでら

Zen temple

僧寺 そうじ

Buddhist priest

大寺院 だいじいん

large temple

尼寺 あまでら

nunnery

仏寺 ぶつじ

Buddhist temple

末寺 まつじ

branch temple

古寺 こじ

old temple

寺社 じしゃ

temples and shrines

社寺 しゃじ

shrines and temples

国分寺 こくぶんじ

state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)

寺参り てらまいり

ritual visits to a temple

寺子屋 てらこや

temple elementary school (Edo period)

回教寺院 かいきょうじいん

mosque

縁切り寺 えんきりでら

(historic) a temple in which women seeking release from marriage could take refuge

氏寺 うじでら

shrine built to a guardian deity

駆け込み寺 かけこみでら

(women's) refuge

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