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神 kanji
gods, mind, soul
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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シンジン
Kun readings
かみかん-こう-
Variant forms
神Words with 神
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —精神波psychic waves
- —人格神personified god; anthropomorphic deity
- —神聖視regarding as sacred; apotheosis; deification; sanctification
- —古神道ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)
- —神儒仏Shinto, Confucianism and Buddhism
- —神理教Shinri-kyo (sect of Shinto)
- —神習教Shinshū-kyō (sect of Shinto)
- —神聖化sanctification; consecration
- —弁神論theodicy
- —神義論theodicy
- —物神論hylotheism (pantheism identifying god with matter)
- —渡来神deity that originated on the Asian mainland, particularly the Korean Peninsula, during the Yayoi or Kofun Periods (e.g. Ame no Hiboko)
- —神明社(post-Heian) shrine dedicated to Amaterasu
- —神明造style of shrine architecture based on that of Ise Jingu
- —神獣鏡ancient mirror decorated with gods and animals
- —至上神supreme deity
- —最高神supreme deity
- —御神燈light used as a religious offering; paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)
- —六神丸pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine
- —精神界spiritual world; mental world