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たま
Meanings
Noun
1. soul; spirit
Alt. forms
魂たましい
97%
たましい
1%
魄たましい
霊たま
たま
Pitch accent
た
ま
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
spirit of a deceased person; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
sending off the spirits of the dead
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Examples (7 in total)
The pen is the tongue of the soul.
A person's soul is immortal.
Do you think animals have souls?
His soul was in heaven.
Plato held that the soul is immortal.
The man sold his soul to the devil.
The soul of man is larger than the sky and deeper than the ocean.