Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N2

705 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: pure, purify, cleanse, exorcise, Manchu dynasty

Kunyomi: きよ.い きよ.まる きよ.める

Onyomi: セイ ショウ シン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

潔な(せいけつな)   clean

純な(せいじゅんな)   pure, innocent

掃する(せいそうする)   clean [v.t.]

算する(せいさんする)   liquidate, settle (an account)

浄(しょうじょう)   pure, clean

い(きよい)   clear pure noble

める(きよめる)   purify, cleanse, exorcise [v.t.]

まる(きよまる)   be purified or cleansed [v.i.]

*水(しみず)   a spring, spring water

Onyomi Examples

セイサン (financial) settlement, squaring accounts, clearing debts, liquidation, ending (a relationship), breaking up (with), burying (the past), redeeming (one's faults)

セイケツ clean, hygienic, sanitary, pure, virtuous, immaculate

ケッセイ serum, blood serum

ニュウセイ whey

セイジョウ pure, clean, purity

浄無垢 セイジョウムク purity, spotlessness

シン Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912), Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu dynasty

シンチョウ Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912), Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu dynasty, seichōtai, typeface which resembles brush-stroke forms of characters

トウシン Eastern China

ニッシン Japan and Qing China

Kunyomi Examples

きよい clean, clear, pure, honest, clean, innocent, platonic, chaste

い愛 きよいあい pure love, platonic love

まる きよまる to be purified, to be cleansed

める きよめる to purify, to cleanse, to exorcise, to purge, to ward off