zhuó

muddy

A pond  growing scum 

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

蜀 meaning component

  Meaning component

shǔ

  

short name for Sichuan

Evolution

濁 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
濁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
濁 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
濁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zhuó

muddy, turbid, dirty, filthy; turbid; muddy; impure

Most common words with 濁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

污浊

dirty

浑浊

muddy

turbid

混浊

turbid

浊音

voiced consonant (English z or v, as opposed to unvoiced s or f)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[N-tˤ]rok

draewk

zhuó

muddy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2985th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+6FC1

Shuowen

“濁,水。出齊郡厲媯山,東北入鉅定。从水,蜀聲。”


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