47 strokes in total
- Hiragana:
- にうつひめじんじゃ
- Alphabet:
- niutsuhimejinja
- How to write 丹生都比売神社
- 丹: cinnabar (native HgS); vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment)
- 生: life, living, lifetime; birth
- 都: metropolis, capital; all, the whole; elegant, refined
- 比: to compare, liken; comparison; than
- 売: sell; [NOT casing, shell, husk]
- 神: spirit, god, supernatural being
- 社: god of the soil and altars to him; group of families; company, society
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