清

pure, purify, cleanse, exorcise, Manchu dynasty

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ショウシンセイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

きよ.いきよ.まるきよ.める

Nanori (名乗り)

あきさやしすがすみせちん

Stroke Order

11 / 11

Information

Grade:4

Strokes:11

JLPT:N2

Frequency:705

Vocabulary

ショウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
清浄	ショウジョウ	pure; clean; purity
清浄無垢	ショウジョウムク	purity; spotlessness

シン

Word	Reading	Meaning
清朝	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
東清	トウシン	Eastern China
北清事変	ホクシンジヘン	Boxer Rebellion (1889-1901); North China Incident
清朝体	シンチョウタイ	seichōtai; typeface which resembles brush-stroke forms of characters
清国	シンコク	China under the Qing dynasty; Qing China; Qing dynasty

セイ

Word	Reading	Meaning
清潔	セイケツ	clean; hygienic; sanitary; pure; virtuous; immaculate
清算	セイサン	(financial) settlement; squaring accounts; clearing debts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past); redeeming (one's faults)
清酒	セイシュ	refined sake
清書	セイショ	fair copy; clean copy
清浄	セイジョウ	pure; clean; purity

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
清む	すむ	to become clear (water, air, etc.); to become transparent; to resonate clearly (e.g. voice); to become serene; to become tranquil; to be free of worries; to pronounce as an unvoiced sound
清い	きよい	clean; clear; pure; honest; clean; innocent; platonic; chaste
清らか	きよらか	clean; clear; pure; honest; clean; innocent; platonic; chaste
清々しい	すがすがしい	refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed
血清	けっせい	serum; blood serum

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

feelings, emotion, passion, sympathy, circumstances, facts

extinguish, blow out, turn off, neutralize, cancel

gutter, ditch, sewer, drain, 10**32

pickling, soak, moisten, steep

refined, ghost, fairy, energy, vitality, semen, excellence, purity, skill

pity, be sparing of, frugal, stingy, regret