Word Meaning 檀那寺

だんなでら dannadera

檀那寺 is read as だんなでら (dannadera) and means one's family temple.

Meaning

English

one's family temple

Reading

Kana

だんなでら

Romaji

dannadera

Writing Variants

旦那寺 だんなでら dannadera

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 30 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Jinmeiyō Kanken 準1級 Rank 141478 Priority W

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

寺檀制度

じだんせいど

system used during the Edo period where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith

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

ぐうじ

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

神宮寺

じんぐうじ

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

監寺

かんす

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

兼務寺

けんむじ

Buddhist temple without a dedicated head priest

廃寺

はいじ

closing a temple

縁切り寺

えんきりでら

(historic) a temple in which women seeking release from marriage could take refuge

駆け込み寺

かけこみでら

(women's) refuge

寺

てら

temple (Buddhist)