Entry
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb

    purification ceremony (performed with water); ritual purification; ablutions

    Shinto

    自民党はみそぎが必要ですね。
    The LDP needs a spiritual cleansing.

Also written 禊ぎ【みそぎ】

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Shinto purification ceremony

Kun
みそぎはら.う
On
ケイカツ
Strokes
14
Radical
spirit

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Dictionary and index codes (10)
CodeReference
1-5-9SKIP code
4e9.5The Kanji Dictionary
3723.4Four corner code
798aUnicode hex code
1-67-20JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3253Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4101New Nelson (John Haig)
24760Morohashi
xi4Pinyin reading
gyeKorean reading