Kanji1 / 10
宮 kanji
Shinto shrine, constellations, palace, princess
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
キュウグウククウ
Kun readings
みや
Words with 宮
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1宮殿Popularpalace
- —王宮Popularroyal palace
- —宮中Popularimperial court
- —宮廷Popularimperial court; royal court
- —子宮Popularwomb; uterus
- —迷宮Popularlabyrinth; maze; mystery; dungeon
- —離宮Popularimperial villa; royal villa; detached palace
- —宮palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
- —宮城Imperial Palace (esp. from 1888 to 1946)
- —殯宮temporary imperial mortuary
- —後宮inner palace (reserved for women); harem; seraglio; consort of the emperor
- —宮刑second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
- —宮室palace; imperial family
- —梓宮Emperor's coffin (made of catalpa wood)
- —宮門gate of a palace
- —宮闕Imperial palace
- —仙宮hermit's residence; retired emperor's palace
- —月宮moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra
- —天宮heavenly palace; sky
- —天宮Tiangong (Chinese space program)