霊 — spirits, soul

れい霊 spirits

れい

U+970A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1458 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1930 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

spirits
soul

Readings

On'yomi: れい rei りょう ryou
Kun'yomi: たま tama

word

れい rei On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

霊(れい) rei spirit 幽(ゆう) 霊(れい) yuurei ghost 精(せい) 霊(れい) seirei spirit 霊(れい) 的(てき) reiteki spiritual 聖(せい) 霊(れい) seirei Holy Spirit 慰(い) 霊(れい) irei consoling spirits of the dead 慰(い) 霊(れい) 祭(さい) ireisai memorial service 霊(れい) 園(えん) reien (garden) cemetery

Words by frequency and grade

8 words

Each dot is a word containing 霊: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 2 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

全身全霊四字熟語

all body, all spirit

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

あめ雨 rain #173

いち一 one #1

亚 Asia

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#173 雨 rain