Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N2

879 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: Buddhist temple

Kunyomi: てら

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: すん

Meaning: thumb, inch

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

院(じいん)   temple

(しゃじ)   shrines and temples

東大(とうだいじ)   Todaiji Temple

金閣(きんかくじ)   Kinkakuji Temple

(てら)   temple

参り(てらまいり)   ritual visits to a temple

(あまでら)   nunnery, convent

(やまでら)   mountain temple

Onyomi Examples

counter for temples

ジイン Buddhist temple, religious building, church, cathedral, mosque

国分 コクブンジ state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)

コジ old temple

Kunyomi Examples

てら temple (Buddhist)

子屋 てらこや temple elementary school (during the Edo period)

ぐうじ Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine