zhuó
muddy
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 濁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
dirty | ||
muddy | ||
turbid | ||
turbid | ||
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。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

