じいん – Vocabulary details

じいん

Meanings

Noun

1. Buddhist temple

2. religious building; church; cathedral; mosque

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

じ

いん

Used in: 87

Composed of

じ

counter for temples

いん

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building

Used in vocabulary (2 in total)

だいじいん

large temple

かいきょうじいん

mosque

Examples (15 in total)

じいんはどこですか？

Where's the temple?

彼かの女じょはじいんを訪おとずれました。

She visited a temple.

この建たて物ものは、じいんじゃないよ。

This building is not a temple.