寺
寺 — sa, si
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 절 사, 내관 시
- Romanization
- sa, si
- English
- court, office; temple, monastery
- Mandarin
- sì
- Japanese on'yomi
- ジ, シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- てら
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #879 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 寸 (41, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5BFA
Parts that make up 寺
How 寺 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 寺 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 之, 又.
Korean example words with 寺
- 사중寺中 Korean gloss: 절의 안
- 고사古寺 Korean gloss: 오래된 절
- 사승寺僧 Korean gloss: 절의 승려
- 산사山寺 Korean gloss: 산속에 있는 절
- 창사創寺 Korean gloss: 절을 새로 세움
- 선사禪寺 Korean gloss: 선종(禪宗)의 절
- 사령寺領 Korean gloss: 절에서 소유한 영지
- 폐사廢寺 Korean gloss: 폐하여져 승려가 없는 절
- 사암寺庵 Korean gloss: 사찰과 암자를 아울러 이르는 말
- 사비寺婢 Korean gloss: 예전에, 국가에서 절에 내리던 계집종
- 사지寺址 Korean gloss: 절을 세울 터. 또는 절이 있었던 터
- 사사寺社 Korean gloss: 승려가 불상을 모시고 불도(佛道)를 닦으며 교법을 펴는 집
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 寺
- 寺てら temple (Buddhist)
- 寺院じいん Buddhist temple; religious building; church
- 国分寺こくぶんじ state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)
- 禅寺ぜんでら Zen temple
- 寺子屋てらこや temple elementary school (Edo period)
- 寺社じしゃ temples and shrines
- 末寺まつじ branch temple
- 山寺やまでら mountain temple
- 社寺しゃじ shrines and temples
- 古寺こじ old temple
- 菩提寺ぼだいじ one's family temple; temple with one's family grave
- 僧寺そうじ Buddhist priest; temple with a resident priest
Characters sharing the phonetic 寺
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “사”
Other hanja with radical 寸
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences