Kanji1 / 15
潔 kanji
undefiled, pure, clean, righteous, gallant
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ケツ
Kun readings
いさぎよい
Variant forms
洯Words with 潔
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3清潔Popularclean; hygienic; sanitary; pure; virtuous; immaculate
- N2不潔Popularunclean; dirty; unsanitary; filthy; indecent; dirty (story, money, etc.); obscene; immoral
- N1簡潔Popularconcise; brief; succinct; compact (style)
- —潔白Popularinnocence; guiltlessness; purity; uprightness; integrity
- —潔癖Popularfastidiousness; love of cleanliness
- —高潔Popularnoble; lofty; high-minded; virtuous; upright
- —純潔purity; chastity
- —貞潔chastity; purity
- —廉潔honest; incorruptible; integrity
- —潔斎religious abstinence; purification
- —清潔感(sense of) cleanliness; (sense of) freshness; clean impression
- —潔癖性obsession with cleanliness; fastidiousness
- —潔癖症fastidiousness; fussiness about cleanliness, etc.; clean-freak
- —清廉潔白spotless integrity; absolute honesty; uprightness
- —純潔教育education in sexual morality
- —精進潔斎purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat
- —簡潔明瞭clear and concise
- —清浄潔白upright and clean-handed; pure in heart and with a clean conscience
- —品性高潔of noble character; of virtuous character
- —不潔恐怖症mysophobia; germophobia