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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
- —門前の小僧習わぬ経を読むyou learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught
- —若僧youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
- —僧房priests' temple quarters
- —和僧monk
- —菰僧mendicant Zen priest of the Fuke sect
- —蕃僧foreign priest; Western priest
- —弱僧young monk; boy monk
- —御持僧imperial protector monk; monk who performed rituals for the wellbeing of the imperial household
- —喇嘛僧Tibetan Buddhist monk; lama
- —悪戯小僧mischievous boy
- —唐傘小僧karakasa-obake; umbrella ghost
- —イタズラ小僧mischievous boy
- —はな垂れ小僧snot-nosed kid