じ
Meanings
Counter
Suffix
1. counter for temples
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
じ
Used in vocabulary (39 in total)
Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral
inside a temple
Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine; temple attached to a shrine
one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
temple's territory; temple's estate
large temple
temples and shrines
shrines and temples
ruined temple; abandoned temple; temple ruins; closing a temple
in a temple; inside temple grounds; sub-temple
this temple
Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century
Buddhist temple
branch temple
temple grounds
head temple; this temple
Kinkakuji (temple in Kyoto); Golden Pavilion; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956 novel by Yukio Mishima)
his true objective lies elsewhere; there are ulterior motives at play; (lit.) the enemy is at Honnōji
various temples
office of a temple
temple's name
Buddhist priest; temple with a resident priest
Honganji sect (of Shin Buddhism)
coarse rice powder
Manganji pepper (sweet variety originally from Maizuru, Kyoto)
status of a Buddhist temple
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
private temple (ritsuryō period); non-state-sponsored temple
Buddhist temple
temple built at the order of the emperor
Buddhist temple without a dedicated head priest
Suizenji-nori (Aphanothece sacrum; edible freshwater algae grown in Fukuoka prefecture)
Nenbutsu temple
Shitennōji International Buddhist University
Ryotokuji University
Shitennoji University
Myōhōji Station (Hyōgo)
Kan'onji Station
Examples (2 in total)
The Horyuji is the oldest wooden building in the world.
How many rocks can you see at Ryoanji?