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Mythic Mandarin

污 (wū): meaning and stroke order

污 (wū) means dirty, filthy, foul, corrupt, to smear, to defile, dirt, filth, variant of 污.

污

Simplified
污
Traditional
污, 汙, 汚
Pinyin
wū

Stroke order of 污

污

  • wū variant of 污[wu1]
  • wū variant of 污[wu1]
  • wū dirty; filthy
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 汙

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 污

  1. wū
    • dirty
    • filthy
    • foul
    • corrupt
    • to smear
    • to defile
    • dirt
    • filth
  2. wū Traditional 汙
    • variant of 污[wu1]
  3. wū Traditional 汚
    • variant of 污[wu1]

Radical and structure

污
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 6 strokes · 氵 on the left, 亏 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 污

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).