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
- —絶対秘仏Buddhist image which must never be viewed
- —仏心鬼手compassionate ruthlessness; merciless scalpel of a merciful surgeon; a Buddha's heart and a demon's hand
- —鎌倉新仏教new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period
- —上座部仏教Theravada Buddhism
- —声の仏法僧Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)
- —神仏同体説kami-buddha syncretization theory (e.g. manifestation theory)
- —阿しゅく仏Akshobhya (the immovable buddha)
- —七仏通戒偈Verse of the Shared Morality of the Seven Buddhas
- —仏足石の歌poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara
- —仏足石歌体form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)
- —新仏教運動Dalit Buddhist movement; neo-Buddhist movement
- —融通念仏宗Yuzu Nembutsu (school of Pure Land Buddhism)
- —南無阿弥陀仏Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha
- —馬の耳に念仏preaching to the deaf; chanting the nembutsu into a horse's ear
- —念仏を唱えるto chant the nembutsu
- —仏教を広めるto propagate Buddhism
- —チベット仏教Tibetan Buddhism
- —木仏金仏石仏inflexible people; heartless people; Buddhist images of wood, metal, and stone
- —全日本仏教会Japan Buddhist Federation
- —世界仏教徒連盟World Fellowship of Buddhists