Meanings
Readings
Common Words
purification
cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
to purify; to cleanse; to exorcise; to purge; to ward off
clean; clear
pure; honest; clean; innocent; platonic; chaste
pure; clean; purity
washing; cleansing; cleaning; laundering
Buddhism
cleansing (one's mind and body)
Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
unclean; dirty; impure
Usu. as ใใ
bathroom; toilet (room)
Archaic
menstruation; menses
Archaic
feces; faeces
Buddhism
pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise
Abbreviation
Pure Land Buddhism
jลruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
Buddhism
Amitabha's Pure Land; Sukhavati
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