神

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神 (radical 113 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火中田中 (IFLWL), four-corner 35206)

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神

  1. spirit, god, supernatural being

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  • KangXi: page 842, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24673
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1261, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2392, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+795E

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神 (Yale san4)

  1. god, supernatural (spiritual) deity

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/kami2/ *[kamɨ] > /kami/ [kami]. Not related to kami1 (“‘up’”) or kami1 (“‘hair’”). Often appears in compounds as /kamu/ indicating that /kami/ is a bound form deriving from */kamu.i/. See Ainu kamui.

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神 (hiragana かみ, romaji kami)

  1. an all-powerful entity worshiped by people; (a) god
    Cami. カミ (神) 日本のゼンチヨ (gentios 異教徒)が尊崇する神(Cami).

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神 (grade 3 kanji)

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神 (hiragana かみ, romaji kami)

  1. god (cf. 神様 God)
  2. spirit (cf. 精霊 Spirit)

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神 (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune-Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

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神 (pinyin shēn (shen1), shén (shen2), Wade-Giles shen1, shen2)

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神 (thần)

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