Japanese symbol for “contaminant”
汚染菌
おせんきん
Romaji: osenkin
(bacterial) contaminant; pollutant
In Japanese, contaminant is 汚染菌, read おせんきん (osenkin).
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Meanings
- n (bacterial) contaminant; pollutant
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “contaminant”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汚染物質 | おせんぶっしつ osenbusshitsu | pollutant; contaminant |
| 異材 | いざい izai | contaminant; different material |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汚染 | おせん osen | pollution; contamination |
| 汚れ | よごれ yogore | dirt; filth; stain |
| 汚職 | おしょく oshoku | corruption (esp. by a government employee); bribery; graft |
| 汚い | きたない kitanai | dirty; filthy; foul |
| 汚れる | よごれる yogoreru | to get dirty; to become dirty |
| 汚物 | おぶつ obutsu | filth (esp. excrement, feces, urine); muck; waste |
| 感染 | かんせん kansen | infection; contagion; becoming infected |
| 染色 | せんしょく senshoku | dyeing |
| 細菌 | さいきん saikin | bacterium; bacteria; germ |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.