Kanji1 / 13
僧 kanji
Buddhist priest, monk
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
僧Words with 僧
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —詩僧priest with poetical talent; priest poet
- —僧階rank (of a monk)
- —怪僧evil priest; mad monk
- —僧林large temple; place with many monks
- —虚無僧begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
- —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)
- —阿僧祇a number so great it can never be counted to; 10^56 (or 10^64)
- —尼僧院nunnery; convent
- —托鉢僧mendicant priest
- —膝小僧kneecap
- —大僧正high priest
- —聴聞僧confessor
- —僧帽弁mitral valve; bicuspid valve
- —破戒僧depraved monk; sinful priest
- —僧帽筋trapezius muscle
- —声聞僧Hinayana monk
- —修道僧monk; friar
- —修行僧ascetic monk; trainee monk
- —行脚僧itinerant monk; monk on a pilgrimage
- —供奉僧monk who attends to the principal image of a temple; Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine