綺

Meaning

綺 centers on ornate, patterned beauty, especially in textiles. It describes figured cloth with intricate designs, and by extension, anything strikingly beautiful or elegant.

• 綺麗きれい
  N5

  pretty; lovely; beautiful; fair

• 綺羅きら

  fine clothes

• 綺き

  thin twilled silk fabric

• 綺麗事きれいごと

  whitewashing; glossing over; lip service

• 口綺麗くちぎれい

  elegant (speech); clear; high-sounding

• 手綺麗てぎれい

  neatly made

• 月が綺麗ですねつきがきれいですね

  the moon is beautiful, isn't it?

• 狂言綺語きょうげんきご

  make-believe fiction

• 綺羅星のごとくきらほしのごとく

  like glittering stars

• 綺語きご

  embellishing one's words (one of the ten evil deeds)

• 綺譚きたん

  beautiful story

• 綺麗かったきれいかった

  was pretty; was beautiful; was clean

• 綺麗さっぱりきれいさっぱり

  once and for all; completely

• 綺麗さびきれいさび

  kirei-sabi; aesthetic based on wabi-sabi with a bigger focus on elegance, associated with the Enshū school of tea ceremony

• 綺麗どころきれいどころ

  geisha

• 綺麗な薔薇には棘があるきれいなばらにはとげがある

  there is no rose without a thorn; every rose has its thorn

• 綾綺殿りょうきでん

  pavilion housing the emperor's bathing quarters and dressing chamber (in Heian Palace)

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