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
- —仏教徒Buddhist
- —仏舎利Buddha's ashes
- —仏生会service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8); Buddha's birthday festival
- —仏頂面sour look; surly face; pout
- —仏法僧Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns; Oriental dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis); roller (any bird of family Coraciidae); Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)
- —空念仏empty words
- —お陀仏dying; kicking the bucket; being ruined; being finished; ending in failure
- —三尊仏Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas
- —弥勒仏Maitreya (Bodhisattva)
- —念持仏Buddhist image used as jewellery or to decorate one's home
- —御仏前before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet; offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet
- —仏滅日very unlucky day (according to old almanacs)
- —仏心宗Zen (Buddhism)
- —仏手柑Buddha's hand (Citrus medica sarcodactylus); fingered citron
- —仏教書Buddhist writings
- —仏教家Buddhist; researcher of Buddhism
- —神儒仏Shinto, Confucianism and Buddhism
- —灌仏会service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8); Buddha's birthday festival
- —仏十号ten epithets of Buddha
- —即身仏monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification