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
- —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
- —日本三霊山Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
- —霊柩自動車hearse
- —北幽霊水母lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)
- —戦没者慰霊碑war memorial
- —心霊スポットlocation where spirits and ghosts allegedly often appear; haunted place
- —霊験あらたかmiraculous; wonder-working; magical
- —祖先の霊を祭るto perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors
- —人間は万物の霊長man is the crown of creation
- —世界基督教統一神霊協会Unification Church (kor: Tongil Gyohoe); The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity
- —世界基督教統一神霊教会Reverend Sun Myung Moon's unification Church
- —幽霊の正体見たり枯れ尾花fear makes the wolf bigger than he is; things are not as scary as they seem; the ghost, when examined closely, is withered silver grass
- —霊苑(garden) cemetery; park-style cemetery; memorial park
- —霊智mystic wisdom
- —交霊summoning spirits; calling down spirits; spirit evocation; communing with spirits; communicating with the dead; spiritualism
- —交霊術necromancy; spiritism; spiritualism
- —ご霊前before the spirit of the deceased
- —自縛霊ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)
- —自爆霊ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)