Kanji1 / 13
僧 kanji
Buddhist priest, monk
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ソウ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
僧Words with 僧
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —社僧priest attached to a shrine
- —役僧priest in charge of a temple's clerical duties
- —名僧noted priest; celebrated priest
- —愚僧silly monk; foolish monk; I; me
- —旅僧traveling priest; travelling priest
- —老僧elderly priest
- —僧都Buddhist priest
- —僧綱Office of Monastic Affairs (ancient Buddhist ecclesiastical authority)
- —僧伽sangha (the Buddhist community)
- —僧供giving to a monk; offerings made to monks
- —画僧artist-monk
- —我僧monk
- —拙僧I, as a mere priest; this humble servant of Buddha
- —梵僧monk (esp. one who maintains his purity)
- —僧衆large number of priests
- —蛮僧foreign priest; Western priest
- —雛僧young priest
- —供僧monk who attends to the principal image of a temple; Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine
- —若僧young monk; boy monk
- —車僧itinerant monk