汙

See also: 汚 and 污

汙 U+6C59, 汙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C59 ← 汘 [U+6C58] CJK Unified Ideographs 汚 → [U+6C5A]

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Translingual

Han character

汙 (radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水一木 (EMD), four-corner 3114₀, composition ⿰氵于)

1. filthy, dirty, impure, polluted

References

• KangXi: page 605, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17132
• Dae Jaweon: page 999, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1550, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6C59

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 汙 – see 污 (“dirt; filth; unclean; dirty; filthy; etc.”). (This character, 汙, is a variant traditional form of 污.)

Usage notes

Region	汙	污
Taiwan	standard	variant
Hong Kong	variant	standard

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Japanese

Kanji

汙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. filthy, dirty, impure, polluted

Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: お (o)^{←を (wo, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: わ (wa)
• Kun: きたない (kitanai, 汙い); けがす (kegasu, 汙す); けがれる (kegareru, 汙れる); とごす (togosu); けがらわしい (kegarawashii, 汙らわしい); よごす (yogosu, 汙す); よごれる (yogoreru, 汙れる)

Usage notes

Used in one poem of the Man'yōshū as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨u⟩, possibly parsed as */wu/:

• c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 837), text here

  波 (は)流 (る)能 (の)努 (の)尓 (に)奈 (な)久 (く)夜 (や)汙 (う)隅 (ぐ)比 (ひ)須 (す)奈 (な)都 (つ)氣 (け)牟 (む)得 (と)和 (わ)何 (が)弊 (へ)能 (の)曽 (そ)能 (の)尓 (に)汙 (う)米 (め)何 (が)波 (は)奈 (な)佐 (さ)久 (く)　_{(笇師 (さんし)志 (し)氏 (きの)大道 (おほみち))} [Man'yōgana]

  春 (はる)の野 (の)に鳴 (な)くや鶯 (うぐひす)なつけむと我 (わ)が家 (へ)の園 (その)に梅 (うめ)が花 (はな)咲 (さ)く [Modern spelling]

  haru no no ni naku ya uguisu natsukemu to waga e no sono ni ume ga hana-saku (Sanshi Shiki no Ōmichi)

  The warbler singing in the unplowed springtime fields―that it be content to live close at hand the plum blooms in my arbor now. (Master of Computation Shiki no Ōmichi)

References

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Korean

Hanja

汙 (eum 오 (o))

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Vietnamese

Han character

汙: Hán Nôm readings: ô

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References

• Nom Foundation