Kanji 宗

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Radical: (40)
Strokes: 8
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On:
シュウ、ソウ
shuu, sou
Kun:
むね
mune
Reading in names:
かず、し、そ、そお、たか、とし、のり、ひろ、むな、もと、よし
kazu, shi, so, soo, taka, toshi, nori, hiro, muna, moto, yoshi
Meanings:
religion, sect, denomination, main point, origin, essence
религия; секта; предок
Grade: 6
JLPT: 1
Phonetic: (ソウ)
Kanji shape: idc
Kanji elements: , 宀, ,
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Examples

天台宗
てんだいしゅう
tendaishuu
Tendai sect
Tendai sect
宗家
そうけ
sooke
head family of families
head family of families
宗教
しゅうきょう
shuukyoo
религия
religion
religion
宗派
しゅうは
shuuha
sect, denomination
sect, denomination
改宗する
かいしゅうする
kaishuusuru
convert oneself [v.i.]
convert oneself [v.i.]
浄土宗
じょうどしゅう
joudoshuu
Pure Land sect, Jodo
Pure Land sect, Jodo
真言宗
しんごんしゅう
shingonshuu
mantra sect, Shingon
mantra sect, Shingon

Reading in other languages

Korean:
Korean (latin): jong
Pinyin: zong1
Vietnam: Tông

Encoding

BIG5: A9 76
DECIMAL: 23447
HEX: 5B97
JIS_LEVEL: 1
MINKUTEN: 1-29-01
UTF16: 5B97
UTF8: E5 AE 97

Dictionary indexes

A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade): 805
A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Ken Henshall): 899
A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall): 889
Essential Kanji (P.G. O'Neill): 248
Gakken Kanji Dictionary ("A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage"): 1023
Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki; White Rabbit Press): 1206
Japanese Names (P.G. O'Neill): 679
Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky): 626
Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky, 2 edition): 616
Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1999): 1419
Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2 edition, 2013): 1915
Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono): 816
Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide: 471
Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2013): 2769
Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette): 1109
Morohashi Daikanwajiten (Volume 3, page 0954): 7106
New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1990): 2228
Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig): 1100
Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig, 6 edition): 1181
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson): 1294
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (John Haig): 1321
Tuttle Kanji Cards: 865
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