Though they may differ depending on the culture and religion, some concrete examples are egested things, rotten things, blood, body fluid, period, child birth, particular or general animals and foods, all contacts and acts between women and between men and women (very rarely, sexual relations and acts between men and people of the same sex,) people outside own community (people of other prefectures, foreigners and different races,) culture, people of particular blood line or rank (scheduled castes,) particular occupations (entertainment, financial and meat industries) and particular parts of a human body (a left had can not be used for eating, etc.)
具体例を挙げると、文化・宗教によって大きく異なるが、排泄物・腐敗物、血・体液・月経・出産、特定または一般の動物・食物、女性・男女間のあらゆる接触ならびに行為（ごくまれに男性、同性間の性関係ならびに行為）・自らの共同体以外の人（他県人・外国人・異民族）やその文化・特定の血筋または身分の人（不可触賎民など）・特定の職業（芸能、金融業、精肉業等）・体の一部（左手を食事に使ってはならない等）などがある。