noun, takes する, transitive verb

  1. (financial) settlement, squaring accounts, clearing debts.
  2. liquidation.
  3. ending (a relationship), breaking up (with), burying (the past), redeeming (one's faults).

Variations

Pronunciation Kanji Kana Is Common
清算 せいさん

Contained Kanji Breakdown

pure, purify, cleanse
セイ きよ.い し (4th, N2)
water, water radical (no. 85)
さんずい
blue, green
あお セイ お (1st, N4)
life (生) variant
month, moon
つき ゲツ ガツ (1st, N5)
calculate, divining, number
サン そろ (2nd, N2)
bamboo
たけ チク たか (1st, N2)
individual(個) variant
knife, wrapping enclosure(勹) variant
feathered stick, barb radical (no. 6)
ケツ かぎ (Kentei 1)
eye, class, look
め モク ボク (1st, N4)
twenty, twenty or letter H radical (no. 55)
キョウ ク にじゅう (Kentei 1)