Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N1

367 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: Shinto shrine, constellations, palace, princess

Kunyomi: みや

Onyomi: キュウ グウ クウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: うかんむり

Meaning: roof

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

殿(きゅうでん)   palace

(おうきゅう)   royal palace

(めいきゅう)   mystery, maze, labyrinth

(りきゅう)   villa

(しきゅう)   womb, uterus

司(ぐうじ)   chief priest

(しんぐう)   Shinto shrine

内庁(くないちょう)   Imperial Household Agency

(みや)   residence or family of a prince

仕え(みやづかえ)   court (government) service

参り(みやまいり)   shrine visit

Onyomi Examples

キュウ palace, tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale), ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women), zodiacal sign

キュウチュウ imperial court

リキュウ imperial villa, royal villa, detached palace

巨蟹 キョカイキュウ Cancer (4th zodiacal sign), the Crab

グウジ chief priest

グウジ Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

ニグウ the Two Ise Shrines

トウグウ crown prince

内庁 クナイチョウ Imperial Household Agency

クナイ inside the Imperial Palace, Department of the Imperial Household

ゲッキュウ moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra

シュク outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

ナイクウ Inner Ise Shrine

ゲクウ outer shrine of the Ise Grand Shrine

Kunyomi Examples

みや shrine, palace, imperial residence, Imperial prince, Imperial princess, headboard with built-in shelves, drawers, etc., temple

みやけ house of a prince of the blood

わかみや young imperial prince, child of the imperial family, shrine dedicated to a child of the god of the main shrine, newly built shrine (to which a divided tutelary deity has just been transferred)

おおみや imperial palace, shrine, Grand Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child, elderly woman of imperial lineage