瀆

See also: 渎 and 涜

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 賣

Han character

瀆 (radical 85 水+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 水土田金 (EGWC), four-corner 3418₆)

1. ditch
2. large river
3. desecrate, profane
4. corrupt, embezzle

References

• KangXi: page 658, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18591
• Dae Jaweon: page 1068, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1776, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7006

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Cantonese

Hanzi

瀆 (simplified 渎, Jyutping duk6, Yale duk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

瀆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 涜)

1. ditch
2. sluice
3. gutter, drain
4. blaspheme, pollute

Readings

• On: とく (toku), とう (tō)
• Kun: みぞ (mizo), けがす (kegasu), けがれ (kegare)

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Korean

Hanja

瀆 (dok) (hangeul 독, revised dok, McCune-Reischauer tok, Yale tok)

1. ditch
2. pollute

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Mandarin

Hanzi

瀆 (simplified 渎, Pinyin dòu (dou4), dú (du2), Wade-Giles tou⁴, tu²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瀆 (độc)

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