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宗

Religion
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingシュウ、ソウ
JōyōGrade 6Level 29
  1. sect
  2. denomination
  3. tenets (of a religious sect)

Synonyms

宗旨

Homonyms

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Same reading (しゅう)
州 · state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.)週 · week衆 · great numbers (of people)集 · collection

Popular Usage

宗教

Radicals and components

Radical宀roof
Components
How it's built
宗
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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house · altar (示) · show (示) · two (二) · small (小)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1181

Compound words

宗教しゅうきょう
religion; religious affiliation; belief; faith; creed
改宗かいしゅう
religious conversion
浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅう
Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School
徳川吉宗とくがわよしむね
Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751), eighth Tokugawa shogun, known for the Kyōhō Reforms and planting Tokyo's cherry trees.
宗家そうけ
head of family; head house; sōke; founder (of a style, etc.); originator
宗祖しゅうそ
sect founder
宗派しゅうは
sect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)
宗門しゅうもん
(religious) denomination; sect
禅宗ぜんしゅう
Zen (Buddhism)
異宗いしゅう
different religion or sect
一宗いっしゅう
sect
邪宗じゃしゅう
heresy
宗旨しゅうし
tenets (of a religious sect)
宗匠そうしょう
master
宗廟そうびょう
ancestral shrine (temple)
黄檗宗おうばくしゅう
Ōbaku school of Zen Buddhism
眞言宗しんごんしゅう
Shingon sect
宗教右派しゅうきょううは
(the) religious right
宗教団体しゅうきょうだんたい
religious group
宗教法人しゅうきょうほうじん
religious corporation
世界宗教せかいしゅうきょう
(major) world religion (i.e. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam)
反宗教改革はんしゅうきょうかいかく
Counter-Reformation
宗教的独立性しゅうきょうてきどくりつせい
religious independence

Additional Examples

彼は政治家ではなくて宗教家だった。
He was not a political figure but a religious one.tatoeba
彼は宗教心がない。
He has no religious mind.tatoeba

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Religion; origin. 宀 (roof) + 示 (altar) — an ancestral altar under a roof. 宗教 — religion.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 宗

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