潔

Meaning

潔 centers on moral and physical purity: being clean, undefiled, and righteous. The gallant sense extends this to honorable, upright conduct.

• 清潔せいけつ
  N3

  clean; hygienic; sanitary

• 簡潔かんけつ
  N1

  concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)

• 潔いいさぎよい
  N1

  gracious (defeat, apology, etc.); graceful; honourable (e.g. death); noble; gallant; brave; manly; sportsmanlike

• 潔白けっぱく
  N1

  innocence; guiltlessness; purity; uprightness; integrity

• 純潔じゅんけつ

  purity; chastity

• 潔癖けっぺき

  fastidiousness; love of cleanliness

• 不潔ふけつ
  N3

  unclean; dirty; unsanitary; filthy

• 潔しいさぎよし

  pride; disdain

• 高潔こうけつ

  noble; lofty; high-minded; virtuous; upright

• 廉潔れんけつ

  honest; incorruptible; integrity

• 不潔恐怖症ふけつきょうふしょう

  mysophobia; germophobia

• 品性高潔ひんせいこうけつ

  of noble character; of virtuous character

• 清廉潔白せいれんけっぱく

  spotless integrity; absolute honesty; uprightness

• 清浄潔白せいじょうけっぱく

  upright and clean-handed; pure in heart and with a clean conscience

• 清潔感せいけつかん

  (sense of) cleanliness; (sense of) freshness; clean impression

• 潔しとしないいさぎよしとしない

  find it against one's conscience (to do); too proud (to do)

• 潔しとせずいさぎよしとせず

  find it against one's conscience (to do); too proud (to do)

• 潔斎けっさい

  religious abstinence; purification

• 潔癖性けっぺきしょう

  obsession with cleanliness; fastidiousness

• 潔癖症けっぺきしょう

  fastidiousness; fussiness about cleanliness, etc.

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