Kanji1 / 15
霊 kanji
spirits, soul
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
レイリョウ
Kun readings
たま
Variant forms
灵霛靈Words with 霊
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —霊泉miraculous spring or fountain
- —霊剣sword possessing mystical powers; virtuous sword
- —霊域sacred ground; sacred precincts
- —霊異miracle; wonder; wondrous thing
- —霊鳥sacred bird
- —霊場sacred ground
- —霊夢revelatory dream; revelation; a vision
- —霊殿shrine; mausoleum
- —霊廟mausoleum
- —霊獣sacred beast
- —降霊summoning spirits; calling down spirits; spirit evocation; communing with spirits; communicating with the dead; spiritualism
- —地霊spirit residing in the ground
- —曜霊the sun
- —霊芝bracket fungus (Ganoderma lucidum); reishi mushroom
- —霊亀mysterious turtle (an omen of good luck); Reiki era (715.9.2-717.11.17)
- —祖霊ancestor spirit; ancestral soul; spirits of one's ancestors; collective ancestral spirit; (in Japanese folk belief) spirits of one's ancestors that have lost their individual identity and merged together
- —分霊division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner
- —霊猫civet cat
- —霊符charm; amulet; talisman
- —皇霊spirits of past emperors