浊 zhuó dirty
dirty; filthy; muddy; turbid
怎么记住“浊”: 氵 water + 虫 insect = dirty. The water in the old garden pond is full of insect larvae, and Mum will not let the kids swim, because it is dirty.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
originally 水 + 蜀
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
浊 = 氵 water + 虫 insect
- 氵 water meaning
- 虫 insect shape only
The water in the old garden pond is full of insect larvae, and Mum will not let the kids swim, because it is dirty.
How it came to be
Water gives the meaning; of the full form's sound part only the lower half is kept, a shortcut already found in a Ming dynasty dictionary.
用法
- Muddy/turbid, murky, the opposite of 清 (qīng, clear): 浑浊 (húnzhuó) turbid, 污浊 (wūzhuó) foul/polluted (air, water), 清水 (qīngshuǐ) clear water.
- Figuratively, a corrupt or heavy atmosphere. 浊音 (zhuóyīn) is a voiced consonant in phonetics.