Kanji N1

浄: clean, purify, cleanse

浄 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning clean, purify, cleanse, written with 9 strokes. It is read ジョウ, セイ (on) and きよめる, きよい (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 浄化 (じょうか, purification) and 洗浄 (せんじょう, washing).

浄

Meanings

  • clean
  • purify
  • cleanse
  • exorcise
  • Manchu Dynasty
Strokes9
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1383 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ジョウ
  • セイ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • きよめる
  • きよい

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 浄

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 浄化じょうか

    purification

  • 洗浄せんじょう

    washing; cleansing; cleaning; laundering

  • 浄水じょうすい

    clean water; purified water

  • 自浄じじょう

    self-purification; self-cleansing

  • 浄土じょうど

    pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha)

  • 清浄せいじょう

    pure; clean; purity

  • 浄化槽じょうかそう

    water-purification tank

  • 浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅう

    Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.