～宗
～しゅう · ～shuu · JLPT N1 · noun
sect
宗 — roof 宀 + altar/show 示
宗 depicts an altar (示) under a roof (宀), picturing an ancestral shrine where offerings were made. From this concrete image it came to mean 'ancestor' and 'clan,' then extended to 'school' or 'sect' — a lineage of teaching traced back to a founding master.