Japanese symbol for “fanaticism”
狂信
きょうしん
Romaji: kyoushin
fanaticism; zealotry; blind devotion
In Japanese, fanaticism is 狂信, read きょうしん (kyoushin).
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Meanings
- n, vs, vt fanaticism; zealotry; blind devotion
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “fanaticism”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狂い | くるい kurui | fanaticism; fanatic; enthusiast |
| 神がかり | かみがかり kamigakari | eccentricity; irrationality; fanaticism |
| ファナティシズム | ファナティシズム fanatishizumu | fanaticism |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狂う | くるう kuruu | to go mad; to lose one's mind; to go crazy |
| 狂気 | きょうき kyouki | madness; insanity |
| 熱狂 | ねっきょう nekkyou | wild enthusiasm; being crazy about |
| 狂言 | きょうげん kyougen | kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play |
| 狂乱 | きょうらん kyouran | fury; frenzy; madness |
| 通信 | つうしん tsuushin | correspondence; communication; transmission |
| 信頼 | しんらい shinrai | trust (in); confidence; faith |
| 自信 | じしん jishin | self-confidence; confidence (in oneself) |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.