Kanji1 / 11
堂 kanji
public chamber, hall
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ドウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 堂
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —礼拝堂chapel; building used for worship (in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple)
- —開山堂temple hall commemorating its founding or its founder
- —絵馬堂shrine building where votive picture tablets are hung
- —大師堂hall with an enshrined statue of Kobo Daishi (at a Shingon temple)
- —観音堂temple dedicated to Kannon
- —持仏堂hall or room where a private Buddha statue or ancestor tablets are kept
- —朝堂院reception compound; part of the palace where important ceremonies were held
- —神楽堂kagura hall (at a shrine)
- —洗礼堂baptistery; baptistry
- —地蔵堂temple hall with a Kshitigarbha (Jizō) image
- —閻魔堂temple hall dedicated to Yama
- —釣鐘堂belfry; bell tower; campanile
- —天主堂(Catholic) church; cathedral
- —三省堂Sanseido (publisher)
- —資生堂Shiseido (Japanese cosmetics firm)
- —淳久堂Junkudo (Japanese bookstore chain)
- —新星堂Shinseido (Japanese book, music and sporting goods retail chain)
- —任天堂Nintendo
- —竹笹堂Takezasado
- —芸艸堂Unsodo