禅寺

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 禅寺 – see 禪寺 (“Buddhist temple”).
(This term is the simplified form of 禪寺).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
禅 寺
ぜん
Grade: S 		てら > でら
Grade: 2
jūbakoyomi
Alternative spelling
禪寺 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 禅(ぜん) (zen) + 寺(てら) (tera). The tera changes to dera as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ぜんでら [zèńdérá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [d͡zẽ̞nde̞ɾa̠]

Noun

禅(ぜん)寺(でら) • (zendera) ←ぜんでら (zendera)?

  1. Zen temple

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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