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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
- —当寺this temple
- —宮寺Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine
- —諸寺various temples
- —本寺head temple; this temple
- —寺刹Buddhist temple
- —大寺large temple
- —古社寺old shrines and temples
- —大寺院large temple
- —勅願寺temple built at the order of the emperor
- —菩提寺one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
- —七大寺the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)
- —寺務所office of a temple
- —寺内町town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)
- —神宮寺Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine; temple attached to a shrine
- —清真寺mosque (in China)
- —南蛮寺Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century
- —兼務寺Buddhist temple without a dedicated head priest
- —念仏寺Nenbutsu temple
- —金閣寺Kinkakuji (temple in Kyoto); Golden Pavilion; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956 novel by Yukio Mishima)
- —回教寺院mosque