垢
- Meaning
- dirt grime earwax
- On reading
- コウ | ク
- Kun reading
- あか | はじ
- Nanori
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- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 32
- Grade
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- JLPT
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- Frequency
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Stroke order
Words using 垢
- 垢 あか — dirt
- 歯垢 しこう — (dental) plaque
- 無垢 むく — pure
- 金無垢 きんむく — pure gold
- 耳垢 みみあか — earwax
- 手垢 てあか — finger marks
- 頭垢 ふけ — dandruff
- 垢抜ける あかぬける — to be refined
- 純真無垢 じゅんしんむく — pure
- 寒垢離 かんごり — cold-water ablutions performed in winter
- 水垢 みずあか — fur
- 水垢離 みずごり — cold-water ablutions (for spiritual purification)
- 清浄無垢 せいじょうむく — purity
- 湯垢 ゆあか — scale (i.e. hard water coating in a kettle, etc.)
- 目垢 めあか — eye discharge
- 垢抜け あかぬけ — refinement
- 垢離 こり — cold-water ablutions
- 白無垢 しろむく — white kimono
- 垢じみる あかじみる — to become dirty
- 純粋無垢 じゅんすいむく — pure and innocent
- 蓬頭垢面 ほうとうこうめん — (with) unkempt hair and dirty face
- 無垢清浄 むくせいじょう — pure and innocent
- 無垢材 むくざい — solid wood (as opposed to veneer)
- 恥垢 ちこう — smegma
- 垢 く — klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
- 垢すり あかすり — scrubbing grime off (the skin)
- 爪の垢 つめのあか — dirt under one's fingernails
- 爪の垢を煎じて飲む つめのあかをせんじてのむ — to take a lesson from (someone serving as an example)
- 垢かき あかかき — female assistant who scrubbed customers at public baths and also offered sexual services (Edo period)
- 垢膩 こうじ — dirt and grease
- 膣垢 ちつこう — vaginal smear
- サブ垢 サブアカ — secondary account (on social media, etc.)
- 垢 アカ — account (e.g. for an online service)
- 別垢 べつアカ — alternate account (on social media, etc.)
- 垢衣 こうい — dirty clothes
- 手垢のついた てあかのついた — thumb-marked
- 裏垢 うらアカ — anonymous account (on social media; used alongside one's main account)
- 鍵垢 かぎアカ — private account (on social media, esp. Twitter)
- 垢嘗 あかなめ — akaname
- 廃垢 はいアカ — abandoned account (on social media, etc.)