Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
thumb, inch
Parts:
Buddhist temple
Kun:
てら
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
879 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 寺 【ジ】 counter for temples
  • 寺院 【ジイン】 Buddhist temple, religious building, church, cathedral, mosque
  • 国分寺 【コクブンジ】 state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)
  • 古寺 【コジ】 old temple

Kun reading compounds

  • 寺 【てら】 temple (Buddhist)
  • 寺子屋 【てらこや】 temple elementary school (during the Edo period)
  • 宮寺 【ぐうじ】 Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si4
Korean:
sa, si

Spanish

  • templo budista
  • templo

Portuguese

  • Templo Budista

French

  • temple bouddhiste
228 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
149 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
133 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
687 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1054 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
45 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
475 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
268 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
41 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
41 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
328 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
500 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2687 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1367 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1853 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
160 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7414 Morohashi
2164 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1373 New Nelson (John Haig)
158 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
170 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
125 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1448 2001 Kanji
3b3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
4034.1 Four corner code
1-27-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5bfa Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 刹 【サツ】 temple (Buddhist), central pillar of a pagoda, kshetra (realm, country), ksetra
  • 刹那 【セツナ】 moment, instant, kshana, duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second), shortest possible interval of time
  • 十刹 【ジッセツ】 ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan
  • 仏刹 【ブッサツ】 Buddhist temple
  • 刹 【サツ】 temple (Buddhist), central pillar of a pagoda, kshetra (realm, country), ksetra
  • 名刹 【メイサツ】 famous temple
  • 古刹 【コサツ】 ancient temple

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cha4, sha1
Korean:
chal

Spanish

Portuguese

French

679 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
827 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1620 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1167 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1967 Morohashi
474 New Nelson (John Haig)
2144 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1601 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2f6.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-2 SKIP code
4290.0 Four corner code
1-49-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5239 Unicode hex code