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穢 kanji
dirty
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- Strokes
- 18
On readings
アイエワイ
Kun readings
けがすけがれけがれる
Words with 穢
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —穢多eta; group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses
- —穢土this impure world (as opposed to the pure land); feces; faeces
- —雑穢various impurities (illness, menstruation, death, etc.)
- —触穢uncleanliness from contact with death, pregnancy, menstruation, etc.
- —穢身defiled body; unenlightened person's body
- —厭離穢土abhorrence of (living in) this impure world