懺
regret; repent; confess sins
20 strokes.
Readings
- サン (on reading): 懺悔 (さんげ) repentance
- ザン (on reading): 一億総懺悔 (いちおくそうざんげ) national confession of Japanese war guilt (1945); 懺悔室 (ざんげしつ) (a) confessional
- くいる (kun reading)
Components
- 忄
- 韱
- 人 radical person
- ⺖ radical heart, left-side form of 心
- 戈 radical halberd
- 韭 radical leek
Words using 懺
- 懺悔 (さんげ) repentance
- 一億総懺悔 (いちおくそうざんげ) national confession of Japanese war guilt (1945)
- 懺悔室 (ざんげしつ) (a) confessional
- 懺悔録 (ざんげろく) Confessiones (St. Augustine of Hippo)
- 懺法 (せんぼう) penitence by chanting sutras
Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists