Kanji1 / 4
仏 kanji
Buddha, the dead, France
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ブツフツ
Kun readings
ほとけ
Variant forms
佛Words with 仏
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —口称念仏chanting an invocation (to Amida Buddha); reciting a prayer
- —観念念仏contemplation (on Amida Buddha, the Pure Land, etc.)
- —別時念仏recitation of Amida Buddha's name on a specified day and time period (practice of Pure Land Buddhists)
- —仏足石歌poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara
- —踊り念仏Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
- —念仏踊りBuddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
- —原始仏教pre-sectarian Buddhism; the earliest Buddhism; original Buddhism
- —女人成仏a woman becoming a Buddha; a woman entering Nirvana
- —三因仏性three causes of Buddha nature
- —無量光仏the buddha of infinite light (Amithaba)
- —悉皆成仏all things have the Buddha nature
- —仏滅紀元Buddhist calendar
- —仏教学者Buddhist scholar; Buddhologist
- —借花献仏winning favor or influence using someone else's property; plagiarism; presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers
- —隠れ念仏secret Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism (practised in Kyushu in the Edo period)
- —神仏判然separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)
- —寺社仏閣(Shinto) shrines and (Buddhist) temples
- —鬼の念仏demon's prayer (Ōtsu-e motif depicting a demon wearing monk's robes and holding a bell)
- —鬼手仏心compassionate ruthlessness; merciless scalpel of a merciful surgeon; a demon's hand and a Buddha's heart
- —南伝仏教Southern Buddhism (as practised in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia); Theravada Buddhism