浄瑠璃 (じょうるり)jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
- jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Kanji in 浄瑠璃
- 浄Clean; Purify; CleanseRead with its on'yomi here · JLPT N1
- 瑠Lapis LazuliRead with its on'yomi here · JLPT N1
- 璃Glassy; Lapis LazuliRead with its on'yomi here · JLPT N1
Words that share its kanji
- 浄化じょうかpurification
- 洗浄せんじょうwashing; cleansing
- 浄水じょうすいclean water
- 自浄じじょうself-purification; self-cleansing
- 浄化槽じょうかそうwater-purification tank
- 浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅうJōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School
- 浄土じょうどpure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise
- 清浄せいじょうpure; clean
- 人形浄瑠璃にんぎょうじょうるりJapanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)
- 瑠璃るりlapis lazuli
- 吠瑠璃べいるりberyl
- 大瑠璃おおるりblue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)
- 小瑠璃こるりSiberian blue robin (Luscinia cyane)
- 山瑠璃草やまるりそうOmphalodes japonica (species of flowering plant related to borage)
- 操り浄瑠璃あやつりじょうるりold name for the bunraku
- 操浄瑠璃あやつりじょうるりold name for the bunraku
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