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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
- —神樹god tree (Ailanthus)
- —主神chief god
- —神明deity; god; Amaterasu (as an enshrined deity)
- —神霊divine spirit; (Shinto) god; soul (of a dead person); spirit
- —神式Shinto rites; Shinto style
- —神酒sacred wine; sacred sake; sake offered to the gods
- —涜神blasphemy
- —邪神evil god
- —見神beatific vision
- —蕃神foreign god
- —神人gods and men; godlike person; person as powerful as a god; person as refined as a god; low-ranking Shinto priest
- —神木sacred tree; support pillars of the traditional fire festival bonfires
- —神火sacred flame
- —神仙immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); Taoist immortal; supernatural being; (in Japan) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C)
- —神気qi; mysterious life force that makes up everything; spirits; mind; divine atmosphere; mysterious presence
- —神州land of the gods; Japan; China
- —神色mind and composure
- —神灯sacred light
- —神体shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine
- —神助assistance from the gods