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Kanji Detail for 浼 - "defile, gentle"
浼
- Meaning
浼 means "defile, gentle."
Defile - To stain; to become impure.
Gentle - For water to flow calmly.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
to request; to ask a favour of
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
to request; to ask a favour of; to pollute, contaminate
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to ask a favor of
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to request, to ask a favor; to pollute, to contaminate
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To pollute. Mencius says: "He looked disdainfully and left, as if he would be defiled" (望望然去之。若將浼焉), meaning disdaining to do unclean things. | Entrusting someone with a task is called 浼, meaning burdening them with trivial matters they disdain to do.
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