Kanji
N2 11 strokes Grade 3 freq #1124

ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

altar shimesu

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

festival
art festival
memorial service
funerals and ceremonial occasions
important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
altar
ritual; religious service
event held the night before another event; eve (of a festival) (e.g. Christmas Eve)
grand festival
priest; minister

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

festival; feast
festival merrymaking; revelry
summer festival; summer matsuri
a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late
to deify; to enshrine
autumn festival; fall festival

Example sentences

He took no photos of the festival.

At the winter festival, Beth received an award for dancing the best.

The priest blessed the newly built church.

The priest gave me his blessing.