Kanji1 / 8
典 kanji
code, ceremony, law, rule
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
テンデン
Kun readings
ふみのり
Words with 典
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —法典code of law; body of law
- —楽典compositional rules; musical grammar
- —宝典precious book; handbook; manual; thesaurus; treasury of words
- —文典grammar
- —国典national law; laws of a nation; national rites and ceremonies; Japanese literature
- —成典law code; established rites
- —盛典grand ceremony
- —大典grand ceremony; state ceremony; important law; legal canon
- —操典drill manual
- —礼典etiquette; ritual
- —皇典Japanese classics
- —釈典Buddhist sutras; Buddhist literature
- —正典canon (i.e. the Biblical canon)
- —神典writings about the gods; Shinto scripture (e.g. the Kojiki)
- —典座one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters)
- —賞典prize; reward
- —啓典Islamic holy books (the Pentateuch, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran)
- —偽典pseudepigrapha
- —典憲rule; law; regulation; Imperial Household Law and the Constitution
- —性典book on sex; encyclopedia of sex; sex manual