Kanji1 / 9
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
- —神仏混淆synthesis of Shintoism and Buddhism
- —神仏分離separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)
- —精神作用operation (working) of the mind
- —精神修養moral (spiritual) improvement; practice mental training; cultivate one's mind (soul)
- —精神風土the spiritual climate
- —反俗精神anticonventional spirit; spirit of resisting convention
- —動眼神経oculomotor nerve
- —神社神道Shrine Shintō; form of Shintō that focuses on worship in shrines, in contrast to folk and sectarian practices
- —国家神道State Shintō; nationalistic and ideological form of Shinto, abolished in 1945
- —教派神道Sect Shintō; group of folk religious sects, as opposed to State Shintō and later Shrine Shintō
- —前庭神経vestibular nerve
- —蝸牛神経cochlear nerve
- —人格神論theism (as refers to the existence of a personal Christian god)
- —欠神発作absence seizure
- —復古神道Fukko Shinto; Restoration Shinto; Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)
- —神明裁判trial by ordeal
- —神仏習合Shinto-Buddhist syncretism
- —皇室神道Imperial Household Shinto
- —神道大教Shinto Taikyo (sect of Shinto)
- —吉田神道Yoshida Shinto; fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements