Meaning: god, spirit
Reading: シン（ジン）、かみ（がみ）、かん、こう
神経（シンケイ）: a nerve; neuron
神仏（シンブツ）: the gods and Buddha; Shintoist and Buddhist deities
神聖（シンセイ）（な）; sacred, holy
神社（ジンジャ）: a Shinto shrine
精神（セイシン）: mind, spirit, soul
天神（テンジン） the heavenly gods, the deified spirit of Sugawara Michizane.
神（かみ）; a god, a deity
氏神（うじがみ）: a local Shinto god
神主（かんぬし）: a Shinto priest
神々（こうごう）しい: divine, heavenly, godly
This kanji is also used for the name of my favourite city, 神戸（こうべ）.
#神 is made of #しめすへん（礻）and 申. しめすへん looks like the katakana ネ but it is a simplified form of the kanji 示, which depicts the table on which offerings to gods are placed, so ﾈ always indicates some association with gods and/or spirits. 申 is apparently a shape (?) of lightning and ancient people believed lightning with thunders is a god.
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