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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
- —宗教対立religious opposition; religious conflict; religious antagonism
- —世界宗教(major) world religion (i.e. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam)
- —宗教差別religious discrimination
- —日蓮正宗Nichiren Shoshu (sect of Buddhism)
- —南都六宗six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)
- —宗教戦争religious war
- —啓示宗教revealed religion
- —自然宗教primitive religion; natural religion
- —原始宗教primitive religion
- —宗教右派(the) religious right
- —宗教音楽religious music
- —宗教問題religious issue; religious problem; religious question
- —宗教芸術sacred art; religious art
- —宗教都市holy city; city developed around a church, temple, shrine, etc. (e.g. Ise, Mecca, Vatican)
- —宗教テロreligious terrorism
- —伴天連宗Christianity
- —宗門改役magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)
- —組織宗教organized religion
- —宗旨替えconversion (to a different religion, denomination, etc.); change (of ideology, interest, taste, etc.); switch
- —宗教２世second-generation believers; people following their parents' religion