Kanji1 / 8
宗 kanji
religion, sect, denomination, main point, origin, essence
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
シュウソウ
Kun readings
むね
Words with 宗
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3宗教Popularreligion; religious affiliation; belief; faith; creed; religious activity
- —宗Popularsect; denomination; tenets (of a religious sect)
- —改宗Popularreligious conversion
- —宗祖Popularsect founder
- —宗派Popularsect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)
- —宗門Popular(religious) denomination; sect
- —禅宗PopularZen (Buddhism)
- —浄土真宗PopularJōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School
- —異宗different religion or sect
- —一宗sect; denomination
- —邪宗heresy; dangerous religion; Christianity
- —宗旨tenets (of a religious sect); doctrines; (religious) sect; denomination; religion; faith; one's principles; one's tastes; one's preferences
- —宗徒believer; follower
- —他宗another sect
- —同宗the same sect
- —宗務religious matters
- —宗規religious regulations
- —時宗Jishū sect (of Buddhism)
- —八宗the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period
- —真宗Shin Buddhism