Word Meaning 尼寺

あまでら amadera

尼寺 is read as あまでら (amadera) and means nunnery.

Meaning

English

nunnery
convent

Reading

Kana

あまでら

Romaji

amadera

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 11 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 準2級 Rank 133701 Priority V

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

尼

あま

Amagasaki (city in Hyogo Prefecture)

尼僧

にそう

Buddhist nun

尼崎信用金庫

あまがさきしんようきんこ

Amagasaki Shinkin Bank

尼崎歯科専門学校

あまがさきしかせんもんがっこう

Amagasaki Dental College

尼法師

あまほうし

nun

尼御台所

あまみだいどころ

minister or general's wife who became a nun

禅寺

ぜんでら

Zen temple

氏寺

うじでら

shrine built to a guardian deity

金閣寺

きんかくじ

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956 novel by Yukio Mishima)

宮寺

みやでら

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

神宮寺

じんぐうじ

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

監寺

かんず

one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest

Example Sentences

彼女は尼寺で修行を積んだ。

かのじょはあまでらでしゅぎょうをつんだ。

She underwent training at a nunnery.

山奥の小さな尼寺を訪ねた。

やまおくのちいさなあまでらをたずねた。

I visited a small nunnery deep in the mountains.