塵ちり

noun

dust

Fine particles of dirt or other matter that accumulate on surfaces or float in the air.

• 机つくえの上うえに塵ちりが積つもっている。

  Dust has accumulated on the desk.

noun

trash; garbage; dirt

Small, worthless debris or refuse; often used in contexts like cleaning or sweeping away unwanted matter.

• 掃そう除じ機きで部屋へやの塵ちりを吸すい取とった。

  I vacuumed up the dust and dirt from the room.

noun

negligible amount; tiny bit

Used in negative constructions like 塵ほども...ない to emphasize that there is not even the slightest amount of something.

• 彼かれには塵ちりほどの良りょう心しんもない。

  He doesn't have a shred of conscience.

noun

hustle and bustle of life; worldly cares

Buddhist-influenced metaphor for the distractions and impurities of secular life. Often appears in set phrases like 塵にまみれる.

• 俗ぞく世せの塵ちりにまみれて暮くらす。

  I live covered in the dust of the mundane world.

noun

ritual sumo gesture for a clean fight

Abbreviation of 塵手水 (ちりちょうず), the symbolic hand-cleansing motion performed by sumo wrestlers before a bout.

See also: 塵手水

• 力りき士しは土ど俵ひょうで塵ちりを切きる。

  The sumo wrestler performs the ritual hand gesture in the ring.