Kanji
檀
N1
17 strokes
Grade 9
freq #2291
cedar, sandalwood, spindle tree
On'yomi (音読み)
ダン、 タン
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
まゆみ
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
檀越
だんおつ
alms-giver; person who donates to a monk or a temple
檀香梅
だんこうばい
blunt-lobed spice bush (Lindera obtusiloba)
檀香
だんこう
Indian sandalwood (Santalum album)
檀紙
だんし
fine crepe paper
離檀
りだん
severing the relationship between a temple and its supporters
関東十八檀林
かんとうじゅうはちだんりん
eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)
十八檀林
じゅうはちだんりん
eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)
檀林
だんりん
Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery
阿檀
あだん
umbrella tree (Pandanus odorifer); fragrant screw pine
寺檀制度
じだんせいど
system used during the Edo period where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
栴檀は双葉より芳し
せんだんはふたばよりかんばし
genius shows from childhood; the Japanese bead tree is fragrant from when a sprout
小檀
こまゆみ
spindle tree (Euonymus alatus f. ciliatodentatus)