Kanji1 / 12
尊 kanji
revered, valuable, precious, noble, exalted
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ソン
Kun readings
たっといとうといたっとぶとうとぶ
Words with 尊
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —地蔵尊Jizō (guardian deity of children); (image of) Khitigarbha-bodhisattva
- —尊厳死death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)
- —尊大語speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener
- —不動尊Acala (Wisdom King); Āryācalanātha; Fudō; fierce Buddhist deity
- —尊敬心respect
- —仏頂尊Butchōson (type of Buddha representing omniscience in Mikkyō Buddhism); Butchō
- —尊属殺parricide
- —尊王討幕reverence for the emperor and the overthrow of the shogunate
- —仏頂尊勝Usnisavijaya; Victorious Goddess of the Chignon
- —唯我独尊throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one; self-conceit; self-centeredness; vainglory
- —官尊民卑putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism
- —独立自尊(spirit of) independence and self-respect
- —守り本尊guardian deity
- —尊属殺人parricide
- —女尊男卑placing women above men
- —直系尊属lineal ascendant
- —尊大不遜arrogant and presumptuous; haughty arrogance; intolerable insolence
- —釈迦三尊Shakyamuni triad; Gautama triad; image of Shakyamuni (Gautama) Buddha flanked by two attendants
- —三尊天井head and shoulders (chartist pattern)
- —意向尊重respecting the intentions or wishes of someone