Illustration: In a small neighborhood shrine's worship hall, the offering table has been used for a drunken card game. Playing cards, an overturned sake cup, and scattered betting money remain among displaced ritual vessels.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

穢けがれ

kegare

impurity, defilement

For ordinary dirt, 汚れ is read よごれ. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. なお、神かみに仕つかえる斎宮さいぐうは穢けがれを避さける。

    Incidentally, Saigu serving Kami avoids impurity.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 神かみに対たいして身みを清きよめ穢けがれを避さけて慎つつしむ事こと。

    To purify ourselves, avoid impurities, and be discreet to deities.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 穢けがれという観念かんねんが日本にっぽんに流入りゅうにゅうしたのは、平安時代へいあんじだいだと言いわれる。

    It is thought that the notion of Kegare was imported in Japan during the Heian period.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 穢

  • 穢dirtyOnアイ・エ・ワイKunけがす・けがれ・けがれる

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