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On reading compounds

  • 汚穢 【オワイ】 night soil, muck, filth, dirt
  • 穢多 【エタ】 eta, group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses
  • 穢土 【エド】 this impure world (as opposed to the pure land), feces, faeces
  • 汚穢 【オワイ】 night soil, muck, filth, dirt
  • 雑穢 【ゾウエ】 various impurities (illness, menstruation, death, etc.)
  • 醜穢 【シュウワイ】 ugly and filthy
  • 汚穢 【オワイ】 night soil, muck, filth, dirt

Kun reading compounds

  • 汚す 【よごす】 to pollute, to contaminate, to soil, to make dirty, to stain, to disgrace, to dishonour, to dishonor, to defile
  • 汚れ 【けがれ】 uncleanness, impurity, defilement, disgrace, shame, stain, blot, corruption, depravity, uncleanliness from contact with death, pregnancy, menstruation, etc.
  • 穢れのない 【けがれのない】 pure, clean, untouched, innocent
  • 汚れる 【けがれる】 to be violated, to be corrupted, to be polluted, to be stained

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hui4
Korean:
ye

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3311 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
25331 Morohashi
4182 New Nelson (John Haig)
5d13.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-13 SKIP code
2195.3 Four corner code
1-67-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a62 Unicode hex code