Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1155 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: purification, Buddhist food, room, worship, avoid, alike

Kunyomi: とき つつし.む ものいみ い.む いわ.う いつ.く

Onyomi: サイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: script, literature

Examples

Onyomi Examples

サイジョウ funeral hall, ceremony site

サイイン imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise

タイサイ Great Lent, Great Fast

ショウサイ abstinence (in Catholicism)

Kunyomi Examples

とき meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

忌む いむ to avoid, to refrain from, to shun, to detest

祝う いわう to celebrate, to congratulate, to observe (a festival), to present (a gift) in celebration, to drink in celebration, to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.), to pray for

いつく to worship, to enshrine