潔
spotless; undefiled; pure; clean; righteous; gallant
15 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 1595.
Readings
- ケツ (on reading): 潔癖 (けっぺき) fastidiousness; 清潔 (せいけつ) clean
- いさぎよい (kun reading): 潔い (いさぎよい) gracious (defeat, apology, etc.); 潔しとしない (いさぎよしとしない) find it against one's conscience (to do)
Components
- 氵
- 絜
- 二 radical two
- 亠 radical lid
- 刀 radical sword
- 土 radical earth
- 小 radical small
- 幺 radical short thread
- ⺡ radical water, left-side form of 水
- 糸 radical thread
Words using 潔
- 潔癖 (けっぺき) fastidiousness
- 清潔 (せいけつ) clean
- 潔白 (けっぱく) innocence
- 簡潔 (かんけつ) concise
- 潔癖症 (けっぺきしょう) fastidiousness
- 潔い (いさぎよい) gracious (defeat, apology, etc.)
- 潔しとしない (いさぎよしとしない) find it against one's conscience (to do)
- 潔し (いさぎよし) pride
- 潔しとせず (いさぎよしとせず) find it against one's conscience (to do)
24 words in all.