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
- —神官文字hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
- —神聖文字hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
- —神経締めdestroying a fish's spinal cord (to keep the flesh fresh)
- —精神異常mental disorder; mental illness
- —蛙狩神事frog hunting ritual
- —神仏判然separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)
- —神明鳥居shinmei torii; type of torii topped by a single straight lintel
- —琉球神道Ryukyuan religion
- —神経単位neuron
- —神婚説話tale of a marriage between a human and a god
- —遵法精神law-abiding spirit; feeling of respect for the law
- —物神崇拝fetishism
- —神秘体験mystical experience
- —盟神探湯trial by hot water; putting a person's hand in boiling water to determine their guilt or innocence (with the belief that the innocent would not be scalded)
- —精神病質psychopathy; psychopathic personality
- —無髄神経unmyelinated nerve
- —有髄神経myelinated nerve
- —有神論者theist; deist
- —視神経炎optic neuritis
- —半神半人demigod