汙

See also: 汚 and 污

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

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

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 (wu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): u / o͘ / ù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): u¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹u

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu¹
    • Yale: wū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /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/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹u
    • MiniDict: u^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹u
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /u⁵³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷˤra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʷaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	汙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wā
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔwæ ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷˁra/
English	impure
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	汙
Reading #	1/2
No.	15688
Phonetic component	于
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	汙
Old Chinese	/*qʷaːs/

Definitions

汙

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. (literary) Alternative form of 洿 (wū, “stagnant pool; puddle”)
7. (literary) low-lying
8. (literary) low; lowly
9. (literary) decline
10. (Internet slang, humorous) embarrassing; obscene

Definitions

汙

1. (Wu) Alternative form of 惡／恶 (“excrement; dung”)

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

  波流能努尓(はるののに)奈久夜(なくや)汙(う)隅比須(ぐひす)奈都氣牟得(なつけむと)和何弊能曽能尓(わがへのそのに)汙(う)米何波奈佐久(めがはなさく)　_{(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)

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