濁 — Stroke Order, Readings & Meaning

Readings

On readingダク、ジョク

Kun readingにご.る、にご.す

Jōyō Grade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

voicedRtK
尿の色が濁っています。My urine is cloudy.tatoeba
川は泥で濁っていた。The river was cloudy with silt.tatoeba
uncleanness
wrong
nigori
impurity

to make muddy (of a liquid)
to make cloudy
to make turbid
to roil
to make ambiguous

Radicals and components

Radical水water 氵variant 氺variant

Components

How it's built

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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water (水) · water droplets (氵) · water pistol (氵) · spider · eye (目) · cross-eyed · net (网) · bound up (乙) · insect (虫)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 898

Compound words

汚濁おだく

pollution; contamination; corruption; graft

濁すにごす

to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to roil; to make ambiguous

濁るにごる

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid; to become impure (of a liquid or gas); to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.)

syllable with a voiced consonant (in Japanese)

濁点だくてん

dakuten

濁醪どぶろく

doburoku (unrefined sake)

溷濁こんだく

becoming turbid

濁り点にごりてん

voiced consonant marks

Additional Examples

水面から飛び立つ鳥は努めてあとを濁さぬようにする。

A bird flying out of the water is careful not to cause turbulence.tatoeba

やがて濁った雨がオレを濡らし始めた。

The dirty rain started to fall on me.tatoeba

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 濁

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step