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寺 kanji
Buddhist temple
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ジ
Kun readings
てら
Words with 寺
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2寺院PopularBuddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral; mosque
- —国分寺Popularstate-supported provincial temple (Nara period)
- —寺counter for temples
- —僧寺Buddhist priest; temple with a resident priest
- —仏寺Buddhist temple
- —末寺branch temple
- —古寺old temple
- —寺社temples and shrines
- —社寺shrines and temples
- —寺格status of a Buddhist temple
- —寺内inside a temple
- —入寺entering a temple; visiting a temple; joining a temple as a priest or head priest
- —寺号temple's name
- —寺域temple grounds
- —官寺state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
- —寺中in a temple; inside temple grounds; sub-temple
- —寺領temple's territory; temple's estate
- —寺務temple affairs; temple administrator; person in charge of temple affairs
- —私寺private temple (ritsuryō period); non-state-sponsored temple
- —廃寺ruined temple; abandoned temple; temple ruins; closing a temple