秽 huì dirty
dirty; unclean; obscene
怎么记住“秽”: 禾 grain + 岁 years = dirty. Nobody has cleaned the old grain silo for years, and the kids come out covered in dust, dirty from head to toe.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
秽 = 禾 grain + 岁 years
- 禾 grain meaning
- 岁 years sound
- 山 mountain
- 夕 evening
Nobody has cleaned the old grain silo for years, and the kids come out covered in dust, dirty from head to toe.
How it came to be
Grain gives the meaning and the sign for years the sound.
用法
- Filthy/foul, literal and moral: 污秽 (wūhuì) dirty/filthy, 秽物 (huìwù) filth.
- 秽语 (huìyǔ) means obscene language; 自惭形秽 (zìcán-xínghuì) means to feel inferior/ashamed of one's own inadequacy next to others. Formal/literary.