Word Meaning

たま tama

魂 is read as たま (tama) and means soul.

Meaning

English

  1. soul
  2. spirit

Reading

Kana

たま

Romaji

tama

Writing Variants

  • たましい tamashii
  • だましい damashii
  • たま tama
  • たま tama
  • たましい tamashii
  • だましい damashii

Stroke Sequence

1 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 146 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

魂胆

こんたん

complicated circumstances

鎮魂

ちんこん

ceremony for the repose of a departed soul

商魂

しょうこん

commercial spirit

忠魂

ちゅうこん

loyalty

入魂

にゅうこん

breathing a soul into (e.g. a Buddhist statue)

霊魂

れいこん

soul

精魂

せいこん

soul

Example Sentences

10

ふるいしょもつには、ひとはたましいとはくをあわせもつとかかれている。

Old texts say that a person possesses both soul and spirit.

そのでんせつでは、しねばたましいはてんにのぼり、はくはちにかえるという。

According to that legend, when a person dies, the soul rises to heaven and the spirit returns to the earth.

Did he sell his soul?

The child is father to the man.

The pen is the tongue of the soul.

Spirit, are you there?

The worm turns.

Your intentions are easy to see, you know.

Do you think animals have souls?

A man's body dies, but his soul is immortal.