魂たま
Meanings
Noun
1. soul; spirit; mind
2. willpower; vitality
3. something as important as one's own life; something invaluable
4. inherent spirit of something; state of mind
usu. as ~だましい
Kanji used
soul
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (13 in total)
spirit of a deceased person
wild spirit (one of the aspects of the soul of a kami)
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
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.