Keyword
soot
Info
FrequencyTop 2600-2700
Type
Jinmeiyō 
?
KankenLevel Pre-1
Heisig2600
Readings
すす
(88%)
ばい
(11%)
Composed of
fire
known but unnamed
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
to be sooty; to be stained
dirty smoke; soot and smoke
soot-colored bamboo (coloured); bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end)
cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning; (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring)
color of soot (colour)
dirty smoke; soot and smoke
sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year)
dust and soot; particulate matter
soot of burnt pine
sooty albatross (Phoebetria fusca)
sooty owl (Tyto tenebricosa); greater sooty owl