Word Meaning 水子供養

みずごくよう mizugokuyou

水子供養 is read as みずごくよう (mizugokuyou) and means memorial service to appease an aborted foetus.

Meaning

English

  1. memorial service to appease an aborted foetus

Reading

Kana

みずごくよう

Romaji

mizugokuyou

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 30 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 35152 Priority F

Related Vocabulary

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水産養殖

すいさんようしょく

aquaculture

供養

くよう

memorial service for the dead

手元供養

てもとくよう

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

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)

養子

ようし

adopted child (usu. male)

養子縁組

ようしえんぐみ

adoption (of a person)

子供衆

こどもしゅう

child

女子栄養大学短期大学部

じょしえいようだいがくたんきだいがくぶ

Junior College of Kagawa Nutrition University