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N1 14 strokes Grade 9 freq #2413

figured cloth, beautiful

On'yomi (音読み)

キ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

あや

Radical (部首)

糸 silk ito

Others with this radical

経 約 統 総 続 結 組 終 線 細 紙 系

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

綺麗 きれい pretty; lovely
綺語 きご embellishing one's words (one of the ten evil deeds)
綺譚 きたん beautiful story
綾綺殿 りょうきでん pavilion housing the emperor's bathing quarters and dressing chamber (in Heian Palace)
口綺麗 くちぎれい elegant (speech); clear
綺 き thin twilled silk fabric
狂言綺語 きょうげんきご make-believe fiction
綺麗事 きれいごと whitewashing; glossing over
手綺麗 てぎれい neatly made
綺羅 きら fine clothes

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

綺麗な薔薇には棘がある きれいなばらにはとげがある there is no rose without a thorn; every rose has its thorn
月が綺麗ですね つきがきれいですね the moon is beautiful, isn't it?
綺羅星のごとく きらほしのごとく like glittering stars
綺麗さび きれいさび kirei-sabi; aesthetic based on wabi-sabi with a bigger focus on elegance, associated with the Enshū school of tea ceremony
綺麗かった きれいかった was pretty; was beautiful
綺麗さっぱり きれいさっぱり once and for all; completely
綺麗どころ きれいどころ geisha
← 但 however 芋 taro →
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