潔 — undefiled, pure, clean

いさぎよい潔 undefiled

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+6F54 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1595 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1668 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

undefiled
pure
clean
righteous
gallant

word

いさぎよ isagiyo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

潔(いさぎよ) い isagiyoi manly

けつ ketsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

清(せい) 潔(けつ) seiketsu clean 簡(かん) 潔(けつ) kanketsu concise

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

絜 measure

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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