浊

See also: 濁

浊	U+6D4A, 浊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D4A

← 浉
[U+6D49]

CJK Unified Ideographs

测 →
[U+6D4B]

Translingual

Han character

浊 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水中一戈 (ELMI), four-corner 3513₆, composition ⿰氵虫)

Derived characters

𪷡

Related characters

濁 (Traditional form of 浊)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 623, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1607, character 1
Unihan data for U+6D4A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant simplified from 濁 (蜀 → 虫) found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionary 《字學三正》. Also found in 《宋元以來俗字譜》, a variant forms dictionary compiled in 1930.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 浊 – see 濁 (“muddy; turbid; dirty; filthy; chaotic; disorderly; etc.”). (This character, 浊, is the simplified form of 濁.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02347-001#35