zhuó

turbid

muddy; impure

water (氵) + creatures (虫) = turbid, murky water

Water crawling with insects and small organisms is exactly what you'd call murky or impure. The image of life swarming in a pool captures why 浊 feels so viscerally unclean.

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WaterSemantic
InsectSemantic

河里的水很,不能直接喝。

hé lǐ de shuǐ hěn zhuó, bù néng zhí jiē hē。

the water in the river is very turbid and cannot be drunk directly.

下雨后,小溪变得浑,鱼都不见了。

xià yǔ hòu, xiǎo xī biàn de hún zhuó, yú dōu bù jiàn le。

after the rain, the stream became muddy and the fish were nowhere to be seen.

Words with 浊

五浊

wǔ zhuó

the five impurities (Buddhism)

龌浊

wò zhuó

filthy

恶浊

è zhuó

filthy

扬清激浊

yáng qīng jī zhuó

lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom); fig. dispel evil and usher in good

污浊

wū zhuó

dirty

混浊

hùn zhuó

turbid

浑浊

hún zhuó

muddy

溷浊

hùn zhuó

variant of 混濁|混浊[hun4 zhuo2]

激浊扬清

jī zhuó yáng qīng

lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom); fig. dispel evil and usher in good

浊世

zhuó shì

the world in chaos

浊塞音

zhuó sè yīn

(linguistics) voiced stop

浊度

zhuó dù

turbidity

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