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たま
Meanings
Noun
1. soul; spirit; mind
Do you believe that souls like that exist?
2. willpower; vitality
3. something as important as one's own life; something invaluable
A sword is a samurai's soul.
4. inherent spirit of something; state of mind
usu. as ～だましい
The spirit of the craftsmen still lives on in this town.
Alt. forms
魂たましい
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霊たましい
魄たましい
たま
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
spirit of a deceased person; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
wild spirit (one of the aspects of the soul of a kami)
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Examples (22 in total)
The body is visible, but the soul is not.
The pen is the tongue of the soul.
A sword is a samurai's soul.
Our souls will be saved.
A person's soul is immortal.
Do you think animals have souls?
For a cook, the kitchen knife is the soul of the trade.
His soul was in heaven.
This guitar is my very soul.
Plato held that the soul is immortal.
Do you believe that souls like that exist?
The man sold his soul to the devil.
Where does the soul go once it leaves the body?
Objects that do not have life do not have a soul.
He still has the spirit of a samurai.
I have laid the souls of many people to rest.
The spirit of the craftsmen still lives on in this town.
The soul of man is larger than the sky and deeper than the ocean.
Even if the body dies, as long as the soul is unharmed, it will come back to life in time.
Everyone has at least one matter they cannot lie about to their own soul.
According to the church's teachings, if you do good, your soul goes to heaven after death.
Of course, things like the quality and quantity of a person's soul can't be measured in units.