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    3. 寺入り

    寺入り

    寺てら入いり​

    to enrol in a temple school

    NTNounHistoryReligion & PhilosophyKanji Vocab10 strokes

    てらいり

    Noun

    1.
    to enrol in a temple school, child enrolled in a temple school
    2.
    incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
    3.
    to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)

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    Characters that make up this word

    寺
    てら…(1)
    Buddhist temple
    Kanji
    入
    い.る・-い.る・-い.り・い.れる・-い.れ・はい.る…(7)
    enter・insert
    Kanji
    り
    ri
    Kana
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