Illustration: In the tatami room of a lived-in Japanese home, a translucent elderly man hovers beside a low table, his lower body passing through its edge. A small memorial portrait on a nearby household altar shows the same face and round spectacles.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

霊れい

rei

spirit, soul, ghost

Example sentences

  1. これで彼かれの霊れいも浮うかばれるだろう。

    With this his spirit will be consoled.

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  2. あの家いえは、トムの霊れいが出でるんです。

    That house is haunted by Tom’s ghost.

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  3. メアリーは霊れいと交信こうしんすることができるの。

    Mary can communicate with ghosts.

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Kanji in 霊

  • 霊spirits; soulOnレイ・リョウKunたま

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