Word Meaning 鬼神

きしん kishin

鬼神 is read as きしん (kishin) and means fierce god.

Meaning

English

fierce god

Reading

Kana

きしん

Romaji

kishin

Writing Variants

鬼神おにがみ onigami
鬼神きじん kijin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 19 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Rank 832 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

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鬼子母神

きしもじん

Hariti (goddess of childbirth and children)

鬼の女房に鬼神

おにのにょうぼうにきじん

a horrible man will find a horrible wife

恐れ入谷の鬼子母神

おそれいりやのきしぼじん

sorry

牛鬼蛇神

ぎゅうきだしん

wicked and perverse

断じて行えば鬼神も之を避く

だんじておこなえばきしんもこれをさく

where there's a will, there's a way

神出鬼没

しんしゅつきぼつ

appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments

神算鬼謀

しんさんきぼう

inscrutable stratagem

神鬼

しんき

fierce god

知らぬ神より馴染みの鬼

しらぬかみよりなじみのおに

better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

鬼

き

Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

鬼才

きさい

wizard

鬼気

きき

ghastly

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