清
清 — cheong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 淸.
- Korean reading
- 맑을 청
- Romanization
- cheong
- English
- clear, pure, clean; peaceful
- Mandarin
- qīng
- Japanese on'yomi
- セイ, ショウ, ジョウ, シン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- きよ.い きよ.まる きよ.める
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #705 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 (85, 8 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 靑
- Unicode
- U+6E05
Parts that make up 清
How 清 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 清 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 水, 青.
Japanese words with 清
- 清算せいさん (financial) settlement; squaring accounts; clearing debts
- 清掃せいそう cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection
- 清潔せいけつ clean; hygienic; sanitary
- 清新せいしん fresh; new
- 清涼せいりょう cool; refreshing
- 清酒せいしゅ refined sake
- 清流せいりゅう clear stream
- 清貧せいひん poverty without selfish desire; honourable poverty (honorable); being poor yet honest
- 清浄せいじょう pure; clean; purity
- 清朝しんちょう Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty
- 粛清しゅくせい (political) purge
- 清涼飲料水せいりょういんりょうすい soft drink
Characters sharing the phonetic 靑
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “청”
Other hanja with radical 水
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