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
- —薬師三尊Bhaishajyaguru triad; image of Bhaishajyaguru Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Suryaprabha and Candraprabha
- —自尊感情self-esteem
- —元始天尊Yuanshi Tianzun (one of the supreme divinities of Taoism)
- —阿弥陀三尊Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta
- —天上天下唯我独尊throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one
- —尊簡(another's) letter
- —尊族direct ancestors; ascendant
- —ご本尊principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol; the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter
- —尊皇王reverence for the emperor; advocate of imperial rule
- —尊王攘夷revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians