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'''讃美歌''' or '''賛美歌''' (romanized as ''Sanbika'' or ''Sambika'') is one of the commonest Japanese expressions meaning "hymn"; since Japanese nouns are the same in the singular and plural, ''Sanbika'' also means "hymns", and thus by extension "hymnal"; many Japanese hymnals have had precisely this title, and others incorporate it. The three characters mean, literalistically, "Praise Beauty Song"; the middle character can be omitted without changing the basic sense of the compound, thus 讃歌 / 賛歌 . Another Japanese term for "hymn" is '''聖歌''' (''Seika'', literally "sacred song"); this, too, is a common hymnal title element.

==Japanese Hymnals named ''讃美歌''==

* [[讃美歌, 1954]]
* [[讃美歌第二編]], 1967
* [[讃美歌21]], 1997

==Hymnals named ''賛美歌''==

* [[賛美歌, 1989]]

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