Kanji: 尊

    • Meaning : revered,valuable,precious,noble,exalted
    • ON reading : ソン
    • KUN reading : たっと.い,とうと.い,たっと.ぶ,とうと.ぶ
    • Nanori : さだ,たか,たけ,みこと
    • Stroke count : 12
    • Frequency of use ranking : 1181
    • Jouyou grade level : 6
    • JLPT : 2
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - たっといあぶら | とうといあぶら - anointing oil
  • | ご - ごほんぞん - principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva)/principal image/idol | the man himself/the person at the heart of the matter
  • | - みこのみこと - crown prince
  • | - とうと - value/preciousness/nobility
  • - くにのとこたちのみこと - Kuninotokotachi no Mikoto (eternal god of the land)
  • - じそんしん - self-respect/conceit
  • - じそん - self-respect/esteem
  • - じょそん - respect for women
  • - そん - zun (ancient Chinese wine vessel, usu. made of bronze) | honorific prefix referring to the listener | counter for buddhas
  • - そんのうとうばく - reverence for the emperor and the overthrow of the shogunate
  • - そんがん - your countenance
  • - そんのうとう - Imperialists
  • - そんかん - someone's letter
  • - そんけい - an elder brother/elderly person
  • - そんこう - you/your father
  • - そんしょ - someone's letter
  • - そんすう - reverence/veneration
  • - そんだい - haughtiness/pomposity/self-sufficiency
  • - そんぴ - high and low/aristocrat and plebeian
  • - そんよう - your countenance
  • - そんけい - respect/esteem/reverence/honour/honor
  • - そんごう - honorary title/title of honour/title of honor
  • - そんしょう - honorary title
  • - そんぞう - statue of a noble character/your picture
  • - そんたく - your house
  • - そんぷ - your father
  • - そんらい - your visit
  • - そんのうか - Royalists
  • - そんか - your house
  • - そんくん - someone's father/one's companion
  • - そんげん - dignity/majesty/sanctity
  • - そんちょう - respect/esteem/regard
  • - そんしん - reverence
  • - そんだい - you (ancient or literary)
  • - そんどう - your family/your mother
  • - そんめい - your order
  • - そんい - your idea
  • - そんか - Obediently yours
  • - そんき - noble (person)
  • - そんけいご - honorific language
  • - そんじゃ - Buddhist saint/man of high repute/guest of honor/guest of honour
  • - そんじょう - one's superior
  • - そんたい - your health | image
  • - そんちょう - one's superiors/one's seniors
  • - そんめい - your name
  • - そんりょ - your will/your idea
  • - だんそんじょひ - male domination of women/male chauvinism/subjection of women
  • - ちゅうぞん - middle image (of three)
  • - せそん - World-Honored One (honorific name for Gautama Buddha)
  • - ぶちょうそんしょう - Usnisavijaya/Victorious Goddess of the Chignon
  • - そんだいご - speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener/language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener
  • - ほんぞん - principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva)/principal image/idol | the man himself/the person at the heart of the matter
  • - どくそん - self-conceit/vainglory
  • - ゆいがどくそん - self-conceit/self-centeredness/vainglory
  • - じそん - Maitreya
  • - しゃかさんぞん - image of Gautama Buddha flanked by two attendants
  • - せいえい | そんえい - portrait
  • | | - そんのう - reverence for the emperor/advocate of imperial rule
  • い | い - とうとい | たっとい - precious/valuable/priceless/noble/exalted/sacred
  • | - そんぞく - direct ancestors/noble ancestors
  • ぶ | ぶ - とうとぶ | たっとぶ - to value/to prize/to esteem/to respect
  • | - みこと - (after the name of a god or a noble) Lord/Highness | you
  • - そんだいふそん - arrogant and presumptuous/haughty arrogance/intolerable insolence
  • | | - そんのうじょうい - 19th century slogan advocating reverence for the Emperor and the expulsion of (barbarian) foreigners
  • - かんそんみんぴ - respecting the authorities and denigrating ordinary citizens
  • - どくりつじそん - (spirit of) independence and self-respect
  • - そんぞくさつじん - patricide/parricide/matricide
  • - そんし - holy master/guru
  • - しそん - the Emperor
  • - まもりほんぞん - guardian deity
  • - そんじょう - revering the Emperor
  • - つくよみのみこと - Moon God/Tsukuyomi no Mikoto/brother of Amaterasu
  • - しゃくそん - Sakyamuni (sage of the Sakyas)
  • - じょそんだんぴ - placing women above men
  • - ちょっけいそんぞく - lineal ascendant
  • - そんげんし - death with dignity/natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)
  • ぶ - かみをたっとぶ - to revere God
  • - さんぞんぶつ - image of the three honorable (honourable) ones
  • - じぞうそん - Jizo (guardian deity of children)/(image of) Khitigarbha-bodhisattva