寺 — kanji meaning “Buddhist temple”
寺
Buddhist temple
- Meanings
- Buddhist temple
- On'yomi
- ジ (ji)
- Kun'yomi
- てら
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- 2
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #879 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 41
- Chinese reading
- sì — Chinese character page
Words with 寺
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寺院 | じいん jiin | Buddhist temple |
| 国分寺 | こくぶんじ kokubunji | state-supported provincial temple (Nara period) |
| 山寺 | やまでら yamadera | mountain temple |
| 寺社 | じしゃ jisha | temples and shrines |
| 寺子屋 | てらこや terakoya | temple elementary school (Edo period) |
| 菩提寺 | ぼだいじ bodaiji | one's family temple; temple with one's family grave |
| 社寺 | しゃじ shaji | shrines and temples |
| お寺 | おてら otera | temple |
| 末寺 | まつじ matsuji | branch temple |
| 神宮寺 | じんぐうじ jinguuji | Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine; temple attached to a shrine |
| 古寺 | こじ koji | old temple |
| 寺内 | じない jinai | inside a temple |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.