穢
穢 — ye
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 더러울 예
- Romanization
- ye
- English
- dirty, unclean; immoral, obscene
- Mandarin
- huì
- Japanese on'yomi
- エ, ワイ, アイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- けが.す けが.れ けが.れる
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 禾 (115, 13 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7A62
Words written with 穢
- 예토穢土 더러운 땅이라는 뜻으로, ‘이승’을 달리 이르는 말
- 예식穢食 더러운 밥.
- 예신穢身 더러운 몸.
- 예기穢氣 더러운 냄새.
- 예독穢毒 더러운 병독.
- 예물穢物 더러운 물건.
- 예심穢心 더러운 마음.
- 예욕穢慾 더러운 욕심.
- 후예朽穢 썩고 더러움.
- 악예惡穢 해롭고 더러움.
- 정예淨穢 깨끗함과 더러움.
- 예국穢國 풍습이 더러운 나라.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 穢
- 穢多えた eta; group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system and whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses
- 穢土えど this impure world (as opposed to the pure land); feces; faeces
- 汚穢おわい night soil; muck; filth
- 雑穢ぞうえ various impurities (illness, menstruation, death, etc.)
- 醜穢しゅうわい ugly and filthy
- 触穢しょくえ uncleanliness from contact with death, pregnancy, menstruation, etc.
- 穢身えしん defiled body; unenlightened person's body
- 汚穢屋おわいや person who gathers night soil
- 厭離穢土えんりえど abhorrence of (living in) this impure world
- 穢れのないけがれのない pure; clean; untouched
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)