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寺 — 6 strokes ／ Radical「寸」

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9Elementary year 2 ／ 6 strokes ／ Radical「寸」
On
ジじ · ji
Kun
てらtera
Meaning
temple

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

土 (land) + 寸 (hand, rule) — first an office managing land, later a temple.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onジじji寺院じいん社寺しゃじ末寺まつじ
Kunてらtera寺てら尼寺あまでら

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 寺院じいん

    temple

  • 山寺やまでら

    mountain temple

More words with this kanji

  • 尼寺あまでら

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

古(ふる)い お寺(てら)へ 行(い)きます。

I go to an old temple.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

山寺寺院寺山mounta…院instit…寸sun対facing専specia…封seal将genera…地ground自self時time示to sho…仕to ser…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 寸Map of reading ジAll maps

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