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Kanji Detail for 穢 - "overgrown, defile, impurity, dirty"
穢
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Meaning
穢 means "overgrown, defile, impurity, dirty."
Overgrown - For weeds to grow rampant.
Defile - To be polluted; to stain.
Impurity - Pollution; filth.
Dirty - Unclean; squalid.
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Four-character idioms with 穢
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厭離穢土
えんりえど
abhorrence of (living in) this impure world
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厭離穢土
えんりえど
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
dirty
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
dirty, unclean; immoral, obscene
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(bound form) dirty; filthy
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
dirty, unclean; immoral, obscene
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Overgrown. Weeds in fields. Overgrown and uncultivated. Seen in (Book of Han). | Filthy. Bad conduct is also called 穢.
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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