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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)
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Kun readings
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Words with 祭
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —昇天祭Ascension Day; Feast of the Ascension
- —上祭服chasuble; phelonion
- —入祭唱introit
- —聖枝祭Palm Sunday
- —聖体祭Feast of Corpus Christi
- —五旬祭Pentecost
- —謝肉祭Carnaval (Schumann); Carnival
- —生誕祭birthday celebration (esp. for an idol or fictional character); birthday festival; birthday event; birth celebration (e.g. of a deity, religious figure, historical figure); nativity celebration
- —五十年祭jubilee; semicentennial
- —祭政一致unity of church and state; theocracy
- —祭政分離separation of church and state; separation of religious ritual and government administration
- —女性祭司priestess
- —聴罪司祭father confessor; confessor
- —大感謝祭great customer appreciation sale (held at year-end, on a company anniversary, etc.)
- —合同慰霊祭joint service for the war dead
- —収穫感謝祭Thanksgiving Day; harvest festival
- —聖霊降臨祭Pentecost; Whitsunday
- —式年遷宮祭fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
- —春季皇霊祭imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox
- —秋季皇霊祭imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox