污

See also: 汚 and 汙

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𬇸, 𪷪, 𡜂

Related characters

• 汙 (Preferred form used for traditional Chinese in Taiwan)
• 汚 (Preferred form used in Japanese kanji)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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Chinese

trad.		污/汙
simp.		污
alternative forms		汚

Glyph origin

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wū, wù, yū, yú, wā (wu¹, wu⁴, yu¹, yu², wa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨ, ㄨˋ, ㄩ, ㄩˊ, ㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa¹ / wu¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): u / o͘ / ù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): u¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wū
    • Zhuyin: ㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wu
    • Wade–Giles: wu¹
    • Yale: wū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: u
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wù
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴
    • Yale: wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yū
    • Zhuyin: ㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yu
    • Wade–Giles: yü¹
    • Yale: yū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wā
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wa
    • Wade–Giles: wa¹
    • Yale: wā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ua
    • Palladius: ва (va)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waa¹ / wu¹
    • Yale: wā / wū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa¹ / wu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa¹ / wu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː⁵⁵/, /wuː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: u
    • Tâi-lô: u
    • Phofsit Daibuun: w
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /u⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
    • Tâi-lô: oo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: of
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ù
    • Tâi-lô: ù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /u²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /u¹¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: u¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷˤra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʷaː/, /*qʷaːs/

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

(deprecated template usage) 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

   • 薄污我私，薄澣我衣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bó wū wǒ sī, bó huàn wǒ yī. [Pinyin]

     I will wash my private clothes clean,
     And I will rinse my robes.

7. ^† (deprecated template usage) 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 usage example)

    要優雅不要污／要优雅不要污  ―  yào yōuyǎ bùyào wū  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02132
• “污”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

污

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): お (o)
• Kun: けがす (kegasu), けがれる (kegareru), よごす (yogosu), きたない (kitanai)

Usage notes

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 污 (ô, ố)

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