The kanji 濁: meaning, readings and stroke order
濁
- Meaning
- muddy, cloudy
- On reading
- ダク daku
- Kun reading
- にご(る) nigoru、にご(す) nigosu
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 水 water
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- đục, vẩn (trọc)
- Japanese
- にごる。すんで いない。
- Korean
- 흐리다, 탁하다 (탁)
- Chinese
- 浑浊 (浊)
Readings, words and example sentences
ダク daku · on reading · less common
濁音
voiced sound (kana with two small dots)
かなの 濁音を 覚えます。
I learn the voiced sounds of kana.
にご(る) nigoru · kun reading
濁る
to get muddy, to become cloudy
大雨で 川が 濁りました。
The river got muddy after the heavy rain.
にご(す) nigosu · kun reading · less common
濁す
to make cloudy, to be vague (with words)
言葉を 濁します。
He gives a vague answer.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.