浄

Meaning

浄 centers on removing impurity to reach a pure state: cleaning, purifying, or cleansing something physically or spiritually. The exorcism sense extends this to driving out unclean spirits, while the Manchu Dynasty reference is a specific historical application of the idea of purification.

• 洗浄せんじょう

  washing; cleansing; cleaning; laundering

• 浄化じょうか

  purification

• 浄水じょうすい

  clean water; purified water

• 清浄せいじょう

  pure; clean; purity

• 不浄ふじょう

  unclean; dirty; impure

• 浄土じょうど

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

• 浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅう

  Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School

• 浄化槽じょうかそう

  water-purification tank

• 自浄じじょう

  self-purification; self-cleansing

• 極楽浄土ごくらくじょうど

  Amitabha's Pure Land; Sukhavati

• 浄土宗じょうどしゅう

  Pure Land sect (of Buddhism); Jodo (sect)

• 浄瑠璃じょうるり

  jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)

• 人形浄瑠璃にんぎょうじょうるり

  Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)

• 浄財じょうざい

  monetary offering; donation

• 洗浄剤せんじょうざい

  detergent; cleanser; cleaning agent; washing material

• ご不浄ごふじょう

  bathroom; toilet (room)

• 不浄場ふじょうば

  unclean place

• 九品浄土くほんじょうど

  Amitabha's Pure Land (composed of nine levels)

• 入れ歯洗浄剤いればせんじょうざい

  denture cleanser

• 六根清浄ろっこんしょうじょう

  purification of the six roots of perception

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