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
- —法源(a) source of law
- —法益benefit and protection of the law; interests protected by law; legal benefit
- —観法method of contemplation
- —法家lawyer; legalism (school of Chinese philosophy)
- —補法revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)
- —法術practising law; legal processes in running a country; method; way; means; magic
- —操法manipulation techniques (e.g. puppets); handling techniques
- —座法(formal) ways of sitting
- —呪法esoteric Buddhist ritual in which incantations are chanted; magic
- —正法true dharma; true teachings of Buddha; age of the true law (one of the three ages of Buddhism)
- —法雨shower of dharma; Buddhism flowing forth
- —禅法method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism
- —法意purpose of a law
- —法威influence of Buddhism; power of Buddhism
- —法音sound of sutra chanting
- —法宇temple (Buddhist)
- —法筵preaching place
- —法蔵Buddhist teachings; Buddhist scriptures; Dharmakara; Amitabha Buddha in a pre-enlightenment incarnation
- —現法local subsidiary
- —殺法way of murdering; killing method; way of using a sword