霊 : Spirits

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Components:

雨二

spirits, soul

On 'yomi:

レイ(rei) リョウ(ryou)

Kun 'yomi:

たま(tama)

Strokes:	15
Radical:	雨 (173)
Usage Rating:	1458

JLPT:	N1
old JLPT:	1
Grade:	8

Unicode:	0970a
jis208:	46-78

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霊 Usage examples

生き霊(せいれい) 生霊(せいれい)	souls, people, wraith, mankind
守護霊(しゅごれい)	guardian spirit
御霊代(みたましろ)	something worshiped as a symbol for the spirit of the dead
曜霊(ようれい)	literary term for the sun
霊芝(れいし)	bracket fungus, Ganoderma lucidum (formerly Fomes japonicus)
霊と肉(れいとにく)	flesh and spirit
霊感商法(れいかんしょうほう)	fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck
霊能者(れいのうしゃ)	medium
地縛霊(じばくれい) 自縛霊(じばくれい) 自爆霊(じばくれい)	ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)
霊長目(れいちょうもく)	Primates (order of mammals)
幽霊社員(ゆうれいしゃいん)	bogus (phantom) employee
霊視商法(れいししょうほう)	fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits)
霊的交感(れいてきこうかん)	spiritual sympathy, spiritual communion
霊的交流(れいてきこうりゅう)	spiritual sympathy, spiritual communion
祖先の霊(そせんのれい)	ancestral spirits
霊亀(れいき)	Reiki era (715.9.2-717.11.17)
祖霊(それい)	ancestor deified as a kami, spirit of a kami
頑冥不霊(がんめいふれい)	stubborn and ignorant
精霊飛蝗(ショウリョウバッタ)	Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea)
霊友会(れいゆうかい)	Reiyukai (Buddhist sect founded in 1919 as an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism)
心霊写真(しんれいしゃしん)	spirit photography, ghost photography