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clean, purify, cleanse, exorcise, Manchu Dynasty

Kunきよ.める、きよ.い
Onジョウ、セイ

Radicals

Common words

  • 浄化じょうか
    purification, cleanup (e.g. of politics), purge
  • 洗浄せんじょう
    washing, cleansing, cleaning, laundering, cleansing (one's mind and body)
  • 浄水じょうすい
    clean water, purified water
  • 不浄ふじょう
    unclean, dirty, impure, bathroom, toilet (room), menstruation, menses, feces, faeces
  • 自浄じじょう
    self-purification, self-cleansing
  • 浄化槽じょうかそう
    water-purification tank, septic tank
  • 浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅう
    Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect), True Pure Land School
  • 浄土じょうど
    pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha), (Buddhist) paradise, Pure Land Buddhism
  • 清浄せいじょう
    pure, clean, purity
  • 浄瑠璃じょうるり
    jōruri, type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
  • 浄土宗じょうどしゅう
    Pure Land sect (of Buddhism), Jodo (sect)
  • 浄財じょうざい
    monetary offering, donation
  • 人形浄瑠璃にんぎょうじょうるり
    Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)