Kanji1 / 8
法 kanji
method, law, rule, principle, model, system
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ホウハッホッフラン
Kun readings
のり
Variant forms
佱灋Words with 法
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —護法defence of Buddhist doctrines; god who defends Buddhist doctrines; defence of the constitution; religious power to dispel demons and diseases
- —弘法spreading Buddhist teachings
- —法会Buddhist service (e.g. memorial service)
- —法帖copybook printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy
- —開法extraction of roots; evolution
- —法院court
- —叙法way of describing; mood
- —法政law and politics; justice administration
- —遁法Ninja art of escape
- —法堂lecture hall of a temple (esp. Zen)
- —州法state law (e.g. in the US); state statute
- —同法same law; the (said) law; same method; the (said) method
- —諡法the rules according to which posthumous names are assigned
- —法座dharma seat (seat from which one gives Buddhist sermons); Buddhist religious service
- —法輪the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine
- —聞法hearing the teachings of Buddha
- —旋法mode
- —諸法all existing things (formed and formless)
- —歩法horse gait; way of walking (e.g. in martial arts, etc.)
- —法域jurisdiction