Kanji
N1 5 strokes Grade 8 freq #1844

nun

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

corpse shikabane

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

Buddhist nun
muni (Indian ascetic or sage)
bhikkhuni (fully ordained nun)
female Buddhist novice
Agni (Vedic god of fire)
Abyssinia; Ethiopia
Romania; Rumania
jewel; pearl
jewel; pearl
jewel; pearl

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

Buddhist nun
to love one's child too much for their own good; to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun
cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun)
native of Amagasaki
bitch
minister or general's wife who became a nun
female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts
female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's misdemeanours and farts
you bitch!

Example sentences

The nun prayed and crossed herself.