Word Meaning 花供養

はなくよう hanakuyou

花供養 is read as はなくよう (hanakuyou) and means commemoration of the Buddha's birthday.

Meaning

English

  1. commemoration of the Buddha's birthday

Reading

Kana

はなくよう

Romaji

hanakuyou

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 30 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 62650 Priority J

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

花巻養護学校

はなまきようごがっこう

Hanamaki Special Needs School (older name style)

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.

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

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)

花を供える

はなをそなえる

to offer flowers (e.g. at grave)

供養塚

くようづか

unknown person's grave

供養塔

くようとう

memorial tower

供花

くげ

offering of flowers (at shrine, grave, etc.)