禊
禊 — gye
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 계제 계
- Romanization
- gye
- English
- semi-annual ceremony of purification
- Mandarin
- xì
- Japanese on'yomi
- ケイ, ゲイ, カツ, ケチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- みそぎ はら.う
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 示 (113, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+798A
Japanese words with 禊
- 禊みそぎ purification ceremony (performed with water); ritual purification; ablutions
- 禊祓みそぎはらえ ritual purification; cleansing of crimes, impurities, etc.
- 禊萩みそはぎ Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife)
- 禊教みそぎきょう Misogi-kyo (sect of Shinto)
- 禊ぐみそぐ to ablute; to cleanse (spiritually); to repent
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)