ちり

塵

[chiri]

Meanings

1.Noun

dust

2.Noun

trash; garbage; rubbish; dirt

3.Noun

negligible amount; tiny bit

4.Noun

hustle and bustle (of life); worldly cares; impurities of the world

5.Noun

《sumo》ritual gestures indicating that a fight will be clean

部屋に塵がたまらないように掃除。

I clean so dust doesn't accumulate in the room.

街角に捨てられた塵を清掃ボランティアが集めて回った。

Cleanup volunteers went around collecting trash dumped on street corners.

塵も積もれば山となると言うよね。

They say even dust piles up to a mountain.