濯

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 翟 – to wash with water.

Han character

濯 (radical 85 水+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 水尸一土 (ESMG), four-corner 3711₄)

1. wash out, rinse
2. cleanse

References

• KangXi: page 657, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18532
• Dae Jaweon: page 1067, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1775, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6FEF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

濯 (Yale jok6)

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Japanese

Kanji

濯 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: たく (taku)
• Kun: あらう (arau)

Compounds

• 洗濯 (せんたく, sentaku): washing; laundry

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Korean

Hanja

濯 (hangeul 탁, revised tak, McCune-Reischauer t'ak, Yale thak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

濯 (pinyin shuò (shuo4), zhào (zhao4), zhuó (zhuo2), Wade-Giles shuo⁴, chao⁴, cho²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

濯 (trạc)

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