Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1748 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: soul, spirit

Kunyomi: たましい たま

Onyomi: コン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: ghost, demon

Examples

Onyomi Examples

コン Yang energy, spirit

コンタン ulterior motive, plot, scheme, complicated circumstances, intricacies

チンコン repose of a soul, ceremony for the repose of a departed soul

ニュウコン putting one's heart and soul (into), giving one's all, breathing a soul into (e.g. a Buddhist statue), intimacy, familiarity

Kunyomi Examples

たましい soul, spirit

不死説 たましいふしせつ (theory of) the immortality of the soul

一寸の虫にも五分の いっすんのむしにもごぶのたましい tread on a worm and it will turn, even a tiny bug will defend itself, even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them

たましい soul, spirit

送り たまおくり sending off the spirits of the dead

うかのみたま the god of foodstuffs (esp. of rice)

亡き なきたま departed soul, spirit