Kanji1 / 11
清 kanji
pure, purify, cleanse, exorcise, Manchu dynasty
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
セイショウシン
Kun readings
きよいきよまるきよめる
Words with 清
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —清明pure and clear; "clear and bright" solar term (approx. April 5)
- —乳清whey
- —清々feeling refreshed; feeling relieved
- —清楚neat and clean; tidy; trim
- —廓清purification; cleaning up; purging
- —清聴attention; kind attention; courteous attention
- —清風breath of fresh air; cool (refreshing) breeze
- —清閑peaceful; quiet; tranquility; tranquillity
- —清冽cool and clear
- —清音syllable with an unvoiced consonant (except "p"; in Japanese); syllable written without a dakuten or handakuten; clear sound
- —清遊excursion (for pleasure); trip
- —清福happiness
- —清適(another's) well-being
- —河清clearing of the river water
- —清秋clear fall (weather); clear autumn
- —清爽refreshing; neat; tidy; trim
- —清談Qingtan (Taoist-related movement in ancient China); noble, refined, eloquent speech
- —清穆gentle and pure
- —清鑑excellent judgement
- —清和season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring); first ten days of the fourth lunar month