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Keyword
clean
  • pure
  • purify
  • cleanse
  • exorcise
  • Manchu dynasty
Frequency
#705
Strokes
11
Grade
4
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
1659
Readings
セイ87%
きよ13%
Mnemonic
Water drops in a blue stream sparkle so brightly that you can tell how clean it is.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
清せい算さん
(financial) settlement; squaring accounts; clearing debts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past); redeeming (one's faults)
Noun
清せい掃そう
cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection; scavenging
Noun
清せい潔けつ
clean; hygienic; sanitary; pure; virtuous; immaculate
Na-adjective
粛しゅく清せい
(political) purge
Noun
清せい新しん
fresh; new
Na-adjective
清せい浄じょう
pure; clean; purity
Na-adjective
清せい涼りょう
cool; refreshing
Na-adjective
清水しみず
spring water; clear (pure) water
Noun
清せい楚そ
neat and clean; tidy; trim
Na-adjective
清しん
Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty
Noun
清さやか
clear; fresh; bright
Na-adjective
清さや
clearly; brightly; cleanly; purely
Adverb
清せい純じゅん
purity; innocence
Na-adjective
清せい酒しゅ
refined sake
Noun
清せい流りゅう
clear stream
Noun
清々すがすがしい
refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed
I-adjective
清せい貧ひん
poverty without selfish desire; honourable poverty (honorable); being poor yet honest
Noun
血けっ清せい
serum; blood serum
Noun
清すむ
to become clear (water, air, etc.); to become transparent; to resonate clearly (e.g. voice); to become serene; to become tranquil; to be free of worries; to pronounce as an unvoiced sound
Godan verb
清きよい
clean; clear; pure; honest; innocent; platonic; chaste
I-adjective
清きよらか
clean; clear; pure; honest; innocent; platonic; chaste
Na-adjective
清せい書しょ
fair copy; clean copy
Noun
清せい和わ
season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring); first ten days of the fourth lunar month
Noun
清しん朝ちょう
seichōtai; typeface which resembles brush-stroke forms of characters
Noun