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Kanji Detail for 濁 - "turbidity"

濁

  • Meaning

    濁 means "turbidity." Also associated with to cloud, to pollute.

    1. To cloud - To become murky; to become dirty.

    2. To pollute - To contaminate; to defile; to disorder.

    3. Turbidity - Murkiness.

    4. Voiced sound - Referring to voiced consonants and voiced marks.

  • Words using 濁

    • 汚濁 おだく Listen pollution; contamination; corruption
    • 濁る にごる Listen to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid
    • 濁す にごす Listen to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid

  • Four-character idioms with 濁

    • 清濁併呑 せいだくへいどん Listen being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil; being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades

  • Tattoo check: 濁

    • Verified meaning: turbidity
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to cloud, to pollute

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    voiced; uncleanness; wrong; nigori; impurity

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    muddy, turbid, dirty, filthy

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    turbid; muddy; impure

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    dirty, filthy, muddy, turbid

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Water that is not clear. | Anything not clear is called 濁. A chaotic era is called 濁世. A person of low character is called 濁流.

  • Onyomi

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    daku(ダク) ダク

    joku(ジョク) ジョク

  • Kunyomi

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    nigo.ru(にご-る) にご-る

    nigo.su(にご-す) にご-す

  • Strokes

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    16 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    to become muddy to become cloudy turbid murky clouded impure dirty muddled opaque polluted unclear voiced consonant

Sentences including 濁

  • Accept both good and bad.

  • The water in the lake is murky.

  • The river was cloudy with silt.

  • The water in the glass is cloudy.

  • My urine is cloudy.

  • A bird flying out of the water is careful not to cause turbulence.

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