污

污 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水一一尸 (EMMS), four-corner 3112₇, composition ⿰氵亏)

• 𬇸, 𪷪, 𡜂

• 汙 (Preferred form used for traditional Chinese in Taiwan)
• 汚 (Preferred form used in Japanese kanji)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 607, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17134
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1551, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C61

污

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; erotic; blue; pornographic

    噫，污  ―  yī, wū  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

    要優雅不要污／要优雅不要污  ―  yào yōuyǎ bùyào wū  ―  Be elegant, and don't be dirty.

• (to make dirty):

• (to defile):

污

1. ^† to wash away dirt

   • 薄污我私，薄澣我衣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bó wū wǒ sī, bó huàn wǒ yī. [Pinyin]

     I will wash my private clothes clean,
     And I will rinse my robes.

污

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污

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

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02132
• “污”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: お (o)^{←を (wo, historical)}
• Kun: けがす (kegasu, 污す); けがれる (kegareru, 污れる); よごす (yogosu, 污す); きたない (kitanai, 污い)

This character is not used in Japanese, and the variant 汚 is used instead.

污 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o, Yale o)

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污: Hán Nôm readings: ô, ố

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