Word Meaning 神も仏もない

かみもほとけもない kami mo hotokemonai

神も仏もない is read as かみもほとけもない (kami mo hotokemonai) and means there is no God!.

Meaning

English

there is no God!
it's a cruel world
there is no god or Buddha

Reading

Kana

かみもほとけもない

Romaji

kami mo hotokemonai

Stroke Sequence

6 Characters • 25 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 5 Proverb ✓ Rank 131381 Priority U

Related Vocabulary

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神仏

しんぶつ

Shinto and Buddhism

神仏同体説

しんぶつどうたいせつ

kami-buddha syncretization theory (e.g. manifestation theory)

神仏判然

しんぶつはんぜん

separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)

神仏習合

しんぶつしゅうごう

Shinto-Buddhist syncretism

神仏混交

しんぶつこんこう

synthesis of Shintoism and Buddhism

神様仏様

かみさまほとけさま

God and Buddha

神仏具

しんぶつぐ

Shinto and Buddhist ritual articles

神仏分離

しんぶつぶんり

separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)

神社仏閣

じんじゃぶっかく

(Shinto) shrines and (Buddhist) temples

仏ほっとけ神構うな

ほとけほっとけかみかまうな

don't bother the Buddha, give no heed to God

神童

しんどう

child prodigy

神殿

しんでん

temple