塵

Meaning

塵 centers on fine, worthless particles that accumulate as waste: dust, trash, or garbage. The idea is small, scattered debris that needs to be swept away.

• 塵ごみ
  N5

  rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse; litter

• 塵ちり
  N1

  dust

• 微塵みじん
  N1

  particle; atom; little piece

• 粉塵ふんじん

  mineral dust; mine dust; fine particles; dust

• 防塵ぼうじん

  protection against dust

• 砂塵さじん

  cloud of dust; sandstorm

• 木端微塵こっぱみじん

  broken into small fragments; smashed to atoms; fragments and splinters; smithereens

• 後塵こうじん

  trailing dust; dust left by someone running ahead

• 風塵ふうじん

  wind-scattered dust; windblown sand

• 塵芥じんかい

  rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse

• お髭の塵を取るおひげのちりをとる

  to flatter a higher-up; to brush the dirt from a beard

• プラスチック塵プラスチックごみ

  plastic waste; plastic refuse

• 余塵よじん

  trailing dust; aftereffects

• 俗塵ぞくじん

  the (dusty) world; earthly affairs; the madding crowd (of society); daily troubles of life

• 剣微塵子けんみじんこ

  cyclops (any minute crustacean of genus Cyclops)

• 含塵率がんじんりつ

  dust content

• 吸塵きゅうじん

  dust vacuuming

• 和光同塵わこうどうじん

  mingling with the world by hiding one's true talent or knowledge; living a quiet life by effacing oneself

• 塵じん

  defilement; impurity; affliction

• 塵の世ちりのよ

  (this) corrupt world; world of the living; fleeting life

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