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
- —背後霊spirit (hiding behind one's back); guiding spirit; ghost
- —祖霊舎shrine for worshiping the spirits of ancestors
- —自然霊nature spirit; spirit lacking a physical form; elemental
- —霊の書The Spirits' Book (1857)
- —黒人霊歌African American spiritual; Negro spiritual; black spiritual
- —心霊手術psychic surgery
- —精霊信仰animism
- —幽霊屋敷haunted house
- —幽霊会社bogus company; paper company
- —幽霊人口fictitious population; bogus population; population which exists on paper but not in reality
- —霊魂消滅annihilation
- —全身全霊complete devotion; body and soul; one's best
- —霊肉一致unity of body and spirit
- —霊魂不滅immortality of the soul
- —心霊現象psychic phenomenon
- —霊感商法fraudulent business of selling goods by claiming they will bring supernatural benefits
- —幽霊社員bogus (phantom) employee
- —霊視商法fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits)
- —霊的交感spiritual sympathy; spiritual communion
- —霊的交流spiritual sympathy; spiritual communion