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    3. 三途の川

    三途の川

    三さん途ずの​川かわ

    Sanzu River (Japanese Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx)

    NTNounReligion & PhilosophyKanji Vocab17 strokes

    三途の河さんずの川

    さんずのかわ

    Noun

    1.
    Sanzu River (Japanese Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx), River of Three Crossings
    Buddhism

    Stroke 0 / 17

    Speed1.0x

    Characters that make up this word

    三
    み・み.つ・みっ.つ…(17)
    three
    Kanji
    途
    みち…(1)
    route・way・road
    Kanji
    川
    かわ…(4)
    stream・river・river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
    Kanji
    の
    no
    Kana
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