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燈 kanji
lamp, light, counter for lights
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トウ
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ひほ-ともしびともすあかり
Variant forms
灯Words with 燈
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —竿燈Kanto Festival (Akita); street light
- —御神燈light used as a religious offering; paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)
- —燃燈仏Dīpankara Buddha; Dipankara (the lamp bearer)
- —燈籠鬢Edo-period hair style with inflated hair at the sides; lantern sideburns
- —景徳傳燈録Transmission of the Lamp (collection of biographies of famous Zen masters); Record of the Transmission of the Lamp
- —秋田竿燈まつりAkita Kantō Festival (3-6 August)
- —燈light; lamp; counter for electric lights
- —街燈street light; streetlamp
- —幻燈slide (used for projection); magic lantern
- —電燈electric light
- —燈台lighthouse; old-fashioned interior light fixture comprising a wooden pole with an oil-filled dish and a wick atop it
- —燈明light offered to a god or Buddha; votive light
- —奉燈votive lantern
- —龕燈Buddhist altar light; flashlight-like lantern with a freely rotating candle that only directs light forward
- —消燈putting out the lights; turning off the lights
- —尾燈tail light; tail lamp; rear light
- —軒燈lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house; door light
- —燈心(lamp) wick
- —燈芯(lamp) wick
- —神燈sacred light