Chinese Character Wiki

汙

wū

filthy

Evolution

汙 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
汙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
汙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

汙  

wū

filthy, dirty, impure, polluted; variant of 污; dirty; filthy; foul; corrupt; to smear; to defile; dirt; filth

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷˤra

'wae

wā

impure


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+6C59

Shuowen

“汙，薉也。一曰小池為汙。一曰涂也。从水，于聲。”


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