Is Mitarai the meaning of the toilet?

Mitarai is a Japanese word that means toilet when pronounced otearai.

Mitarai, or mitarashi in Japanese, is a place in a shrine temple for worshippers to wash their hands and gargle. It is also called tesui, and the buildings such as the terraces and pavilions built around the tezui are called tesuzusha. Hand water has a feeling similar to the "holy water" of the West, so only the handwashing area of the shrine temple can be called Mitarai.

It also represents Japanese surnames, place names, sweets, and anime characters.

Since the words "Mitarai" and "Harai" are written in such a similar way, people who don't know much about Japan and the Japanese language may think that the two are the same thing.

Pronounced "mitarai" or mitarashi, it can only be called "mitarai" at shrines and temples, and cannot be called "mitarai" in other places such as homes or parks. Mitarai does not function as a toilet. Common in colloquial language, dialect, originally a religious term, religion means to remove difficulties, seek wealth, in the many Eastern secret practices, it belongs to the secret method of the secret method of the female "Yu Po" with "Liudi" in the addition of "pulp, Izumo saddle horse, four spiritual things" 3 seals.

The small river that flows near the shrine temple is also used as a place for visitors to wash their hands, and it is called the "Mitarai River". The Otarai River at Kyoto's Shimogamo Shrine is famous.

And "hand washing" is pronounced otearai, which is what toilet means. Sometimes the following writing "hand wash" is omitted.

Although toilet can also be written as "mitarai" in Japanese, it is not commonly used in daily life, especially in shrines and temples, so that it is different from the handwashing area. Moreover, the handwashing place is generally open-air, and there will be no closed houses on all sides, and the toilets will not be mixed up when you see them when you travel.

Yes, it's actually a Japanese surname.

I remember a detective called Mitarai (cleaning the toilet).

I remember reading a story in a newspaper or magazine that Chinese people thought it was a toilet, but when they went in, they knew it was someone else, and they were kicked out.

Yes, Japanese is

That's right Mitarai otearai