寺
temple; Buddhist temple
6 strokes. Taught in grade 2. Newspaper frequency rank 879.
Readings
- ジ (on reading): 寺院 (じいん) Buddhist temple; 寺 (じ) counter for temples
- てら (kun reading): 寺 (てら) temple (Buddhist); 寺子屋 (てらこや) temple elementary school (Edo period)
Components
Kanji containing 寺
- 時 time
- 持 hold
- 特 special
- 待 wait
- 等 etc.
- 詩 poem
- 侍 waiter
- 峙 tower
- 恃 depend on
- 畤 festival grounds
- 痔 piles
Words using 寺
- 寺院 (じいん) Buddhist temple
- 寺 (じ) counter for temples
- 当寺 (とうじ) this temple
- 末寺 (まつじ) branch temple
- 廃寺 (はいじ) ruined temple
- 寺 (てら) temple (Buddhist)
- 寺子屋 (てらこや) temple elementary school (Edo period)
- 禅寺 (ぜんでら) Zen temple
- 尼寺 (あまでら) nunnery
- 古寺 (ふるでら) old temple
- 誠照寺派 (じょうしょうじは) Jōshōji sect (of Shin Buddhism)
- 監寺 (かんす) one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest
- 都寺 (つうす) one of the six administrators of a Zen temple
- 副寺 (ふうす) one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting)
91 words in all.