Kanji Detail for 塵 - "dust, filth, worldly"

塵

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

塵 means "dust, filth, worldly."
1. Dust - Dirt; garbage; particles; sand dust.
2. Filth - Impurity; defilement.
3. Worldly - The mundane world.
Four-character idioms with 塵
- 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
- 黄塵万丈こうじんばんじょう rising cloud of (yellowish) dust
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

dust; trash; garbage

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

dust, dirt, ashes, cinders

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

dust; dirt; earth

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

cinders, ashes, dust, dirt

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

An elk-family animal. Old accounts say it is like a deer but larger. When it walks, a herd of deer follows it. Its tail repels dust. In ancient times, it was often used to make fly-whisks. Hence fly-whisks are also called 塵尾.
Onyomi

chin(チン)

jin(ジン)
Kunyomi

chiri(ちり)

gomi(ごみ)
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)
Related Keywords

dust filth worldly dirt grime

塵も積もれば山となる。
Many a little makes a mickle.
１年が過ぎ、彼の死体は塵と化した。
A year had passed by and his body turned to dust.
彼は君に塵を食べさせようとしている。
He will make you eat dirt.
宇宙服は宇宙飛行士たちを細かな宇宙塵との衝突による怪我から守る。
Spacesuits protect astronauts from being injured from impacts of small bits of space dust.
不規則銀河とは構造が不確定であり、若い恒星や塵、ガスを大量に含む。
An irregular galaxy has an undefined shape and is full of young stars, dust, and gas.
銀河系は、お互いの重力によって引きつけ合っている星や塵そしてガスの塊です。
A galaxy is a cluster of stars, dust, and gas which is held together by gravity.
宇宙塵はあまり危険そうに思えないかもしれないが、ごく小さな粒であっても、銃弾の何倍もの速度で飛んでくるので、怪我をしかねない。
Space dust may not sound very dangerous, but when even a tiny object is moving many times faster than a bullet, it can cause injury.