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祭 kanji
ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
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Kun readings
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Words with 祭
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —弔祭memorial service
- —年祭anniversary
- —例祭regular festival; annual festival
- —司祭priest; minister; pastor
- —祭文address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era
- —親祭rites conducted by the emperor
- —獺祭arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)
- —祭主(head) priest; head priest of the Ise Shrine
- —祭式rites; rituals
- —祭事festival; rites; ritual
- —祭服vestments worn by priests and attendants (Shinto, Christian, etc.)
- —祭具equipment used in a ritual; ritual implement
- —祭政church and state
- —祭場ceremony site
- —祭殿shrine; sanctuary
- —祭儀rites; ritual
- —祭器equipment used in rituals
- —祭官official who arranges festival and rites
- —奇祭strange festival; odd festival
- —鎮祭religious ceremony (to appease the gods)