noun

  1. person (or their spirit) who died with no one to tend their grave.

Variations

Pronunciation Kanji Kana Is Common
無縁仏 むえんぼとけ

Contained Kanji Breakdown

nothingness, none, ain't
ム ブ な.い (4th)
person, (人 variant)
40, forty
シュウ よんじゅう しじゅう
one, one radical (no.1)
イチ いっ ひと- (1st, N5)
fire, fire radical (no. 86)
ヒョウ カ
affinity, relation, connection
エン -ネン ふち (Early Jr. High, N1)
thread
いと シ (1st, N2)
short thread radical (no. 52)
ヨウ ちいさい (Kentei 1)
little, small
ショウ こ- ちい.さい (1st, N5)
feathered stick, barb radical (no. 6)
ケツ かぎ (Kentei 1)
eight, eight radical (no. 12)
ハチ や はっ (1st, N5)
divination
タン (Kentei 1)
pig's head radical variant (no. 58)
ケイ (Kentei 1)
pig, hog, pig radical (no. 152)
 (Kentei 1)
Buddha, the dead, France
ブツ ほとけ (5th, N2)
human radical (no. 9)
I, myself, katakana mu radical (no. 28)
シ ボウ ム (Kentei 1)