Word Meaning 手元供養

てもとくよう temotokuyou

手元供養 is read as てもとくよう (temotokuyou) and means keeping (part of) a person's ashes in one's home or inside a pendant, etc..

Meaning

English

keeping (part of) a person's ashes in one's home or inside a pendant, etc.

Reading

Kana

てもとくよう

Romaji

temotokuyou

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 31 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 34480 Priority F

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

手元が狂う

てもとがくるう

to become clumsy

供養

くよう

memorial service for the dead

水子供養

みずごくよう

memorial service to appease an aborted foetus

永代供養

えいたいくよう

services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul

針供養

はりくよう

memorial service for old needles

花供養

はなくよう

commemoration of the Buddha's birthday

追善供養

ついぜんくよう

memorial service

開眼供養

かいげんくよう

ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul)

手元

てもと

grip

手羽元

てばもと

first segment of a chicken's wing

手元流動性

てもとりゅうどうせい

liquidity on hand

提供元

ていきょうもと

original source