Word Meaning 改宗

かいしゅう kaishuu

改宗 is read as かいしゅう (kaishuu) and means religious conversion.

Meaning

English

  1. religious conversion

Reading

Kana

かいしゅう

Romaji

kaishuu

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 15 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 9613 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

改宗者

かいしゅうしゃ

convert (e.g. to Buddhism)

反宗教改革

はんしゅうきょうかいかく

Counter-Reformation

宗教改革

しゅうきょうかいかく

the Reformation

宗門改役

しゅうもんあらためやく

magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

宗門改

しゅうもんあらため

Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)

改善

かいぜん

kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)

改訂版

かいていばん

revised edition

改憲

かいけん

constitutional change

改修

かいしゅう

repair

改訂

かいてい

revision (of text)

改廃

かいはい

reform and (or) abolition

改称

かいしょう

renaming

Example Sentences

7

かのじょはきりすときょうにかいしゅうした。

She converted to Christianity.

I converted to Christianity.

He converted to Christianity.

He was converted from Buddhism to Christianity.

He is a recent convert to Catholicism.

Tom converted from Christianity to Islam.

Fadil converted to Islam in 1977.