寺 – vocab dash

Keyword

Buddhist temple

Frequency: #879
Strokes: 6
Grade: 2
JLPT (old): N2
Heisig: 170

Readings

ジ67%

てら33%

Mnemonic

Monks carry earth a few centimeters at a time up the hillside, patient and chanting, until their Buddhist temple rises.

Stroke order

Composed of

土earth 寸a few centimeters

Used in kanji

時time 持have 特special 待wait 等equal 詩poem 侍samurai 峙tower 庤prepare 恃depend on 畤festival grounds 痔hemorrhoids 跱stop

Used in vocabulary

寺てら

temple (Buddhist)

Noun

寺じ院いん

Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral; mosque

Noun

禅ぜん寺でら

Zen temple

Noun

国こく分ぶん寺じ

state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)

Noun

寺じ

counter for temples

Suffix

お寺てら

temple; monk

Noun

神じん宮ぐう寺じ

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine; temple attached to a shrine

Noun

山やま寺でら

mountain temple

Noun

寺じ社しゃ

temples and shrines

Noun

寺てら子こ屋や

temple elementary school (Edo period)

Noun

末まつ寺じ

branch temple

Noun

寺じ内ない

inside a temple

Noun

社しゃ寺じ

shrines and temples

Noun

金きん閣かく寺じ

Kinkakuji (temple in Kyoto); Golden Pavilion; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956 novel by Yukio Mishima)

Noun

古こ寺じ

old temple

Noun

菩ぼ提だい寺じ

one's family temple; temple with one's family grave

Noun

宮ぐう寺じ

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

Noun

少しょう林りん寺じ拳けん法ぽう

Shorinji Kempo (modern Japanese martial art based on Shaolin kung fu)

Noun

廃はい寺じ

ruined temple; abandoned temple; temple ruins; closing a temple

Noun

尼あま寺でら

nunnery; convent

Noun

大だい寺じ

large temple

Noun

寺じ領りょう

temple's territory; temple's estate

Noun

本ほん寺じ

head temple; this temple

Noun

寺てら参まいり

ritual visits to a temple

Noun