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Kanji Detail for 瀆 - "ditch, large river, defile, scorn"
瀆
- Meaning
瀆 means "ditch, large river, defile, scorn."
Ditch - An irrigation channel.
Large river - A great waterway.
Defile - To stain; to be polluted.
Scorn - To look down upon.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
ditch; sluice; gutter; drain; blaspheme; pollute
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
ditch, sluice, gutter, drain
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
disrespectful; (literary) ditch
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
ditch, sluice, gutter, drain
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A ditch. (Analects) "To hang oneself in a ditch." Refers to a secluded place with no one around. | Anciently the Yangtze, Yellow River, Huai, and Ji were called the Four 瀆 (Great Rivers), meaning they independently flow into the sea. Today the Ji is absorbed by the Yellow River, and the Huai enters the Grand Canal. Of the four great rivers, only the Yangtze and Yellow River enter the sea. | Repeatedly making requests until others are annoyed is called 瀆. As in 干瀆 (to importune). | Disrespectful. As colloquially saying 褻瀆 (to profane), meaning too frequent and without proper ceremony.
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