污

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See also: 汚 and 汙
污 U+6C61, 污
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C61
← 池
[U+6C60] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 汢 →
[U+6C62]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

污 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水一一尸 (EMMS), four-corner 31127, composition ⿰氵亏)

Derived characters[edit]

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 607, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17134
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1551, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6C61

Chinese[edit]

trad. 污/汙/汚
simp. 污

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (于) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
侉 *qaːls
夸 *kʰʷraː
姱 *kʰʷraː
胯 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
跨 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
誇 *kʰʷraː
垮 *kʰʷraːʔ
銙 *kʰʷraːʔ
骻 *kʰʷraːʔ
咵 *kʰʷraːʔ
釫 *ɢʷraː, *qʷaː
摦 *ɡʷraːs
鮬 *pɢʷaː, *kʰʷaː
嶀 *qʰʷl'aː
扝 *kʰʷaː, *qʷaː
刳 *kʰʷaː
郀 *kʰʷaː
挎 *kʰʷaː
袴 *kʰʷaːs
絝 *kʰʷaːs
褲 *kʰʷaːs
恗 *qʰaː
洿 *ɡʷaːʔ, *qʷaː
瓠 *ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs
鄠 *ɢʷlaːʔ
污 *qʷaː, *qʷaːs
杇 *qʷaː
圬 *qʷaː
鴮 *qʷaː
盓 *qʷaː
汙 *qʷaːs, *ɢʷa
樗 *qʰʷl'a
摴 *qʰʷl'a
荂 *pqʰʷa, *qʰʷa
雩 *qʰʷla, *ɢʷla
吁 *qʰʷa, *ɢʷas
盱 *qʰʷa
訏 *qʰʷa
扜 *qʰʷa, *qʷa
旴 *qʰʷa
冔 *qʰʷaʔ
紆 *qʷa
陓 *qʷa
迂 *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa
虶 *qʷa
于 *ɢʷa
盂 *ɢʷa
竽 *ɢʷa
邘 *ɢʷa
玗 *ɢʷa
芋 *ɢʷa, *ɢʷas
杅 *ɢʷa
釪 *ɢʷa
骬 *ɢʷa
謣 *ɢʷla
宇 *ɢʷaʔ

Pronunciation[edit]

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 污
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wā
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔwæ ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʷˁra/
English impure, vile

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 污 污
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15679 15687
Phonetic
component 		于 于
Rime
group 		魚 魚
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		烏 汙
Old
Chinese 		/*qʷaː/ /*qʷaːs/
Notes 同洿 手冊作汙今字廣韻平聲也作污

Definitions[edit]

污

  1. dirt; filth
  2. unclean; dirty; filthy
  3. rotten; corrupt
  4. to make dirty; to pollute; to stain
  5. to defile; to smear; to tarnish
  6. † to wash away dirt
  7. † Alternative form of 洿 (wū, “stagnant pool; puddle”).
  8. † low-lying
  9. † low; lowly
  10. † decline
  11. (Internet slang, humorous) embarrassing; obscene; erotic; blue; pornographic
    噫，污  ―  yī, wū  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)
    要優雅不要污 / 要优雅不要污  ―  yào yōuyǎ bùyào wū  ―  Be elegant, and don't be dirty.
  12. (Wu) excrement; faeces; dung

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 污

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

污

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

This character is not used in Japanese, and the variant 汚 is used instead.

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

污 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o, Yale o)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

污: Hán Nôm readings: ô, ố

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