漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
潔: undefiled, pure
Also: clean, righteous, gallant
JLPT N115 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 絜(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 絜 gives the sound
15 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ケツketsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 潔癖なけっぺきなfastidious
- 潔白なけっぱくなinnocent, upright
- 清潔なせいけつなclean [adj.]
- 不潔なふけつなunclean, dirty, filthy, impure
- 純潔なじゅんけつなpure
- 高潔なこうけつなnoble
- 簡潔なかんけつなbrief, concise
いさぎよいisagiyoi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 潔いいさぎよいsportsmanlike
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 洁 · traditional, as in Japanese · jié
Japan keeps the traditional form 潔; mainland China simplifies it to 洁.
- Simplified
- 洁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 潔 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jié most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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