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穢

穢

See also: 秽

Translingual

Han character

穢 (radical 115 禾+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹木卜一竹 (HDYMH), four-corner 21953)

  1. dirty, unclean
  2. immoral, obscene

References

  • KangXi: page 861, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25331
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1287, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2634, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7A62

Chinese

trad. 穢
simp. 秽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (歲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
噦 *qʰʷaːds, *qʷrad, *qʷad
翽 *qʰʷaːds
鐬 *qʰʷaːds
濊 *qʰʷaːds, *qʷaːds, *qʷads, *qʰʷaːd
歲 *sqʰʷads, *sqʰʷad
劌 *kʷrads
顪 *qʰʷads
穢 *qʷads
薉 *qʷads
獩 *qʷads
饖 *qʷads
奯 *qʰʷaːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 穢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 廢 (28)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於廢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔʉɐiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷiɐiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔuajH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiuɐiH/
Wang
Li		 /ĭwɐiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯wɐiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 穢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjwojH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷat-s/
English bad weeds; filth

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 穢
Reading # 1/1
No. 12168
Phonetic
component		 歲
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 穢
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷads/

Definitions

穢

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Japanese

Kanji

穢

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

穢 • ‎(ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

穢 (uế)

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