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濁 — Voiced

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary school#1883 most used
voiced, uncleanness, wrong, nigori, impurity
On’yomiダク (daku)
On’yomiジョク (joku)
Kun’yomiにご (nigoru)
Kun’yomiにご (nigosu)

Stroke order (16 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 濁

WordReadingMeaning
汚濁おだく
odaku
pollution; contamination; corruption
濁すにごす
nigosu
to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid
濁るにごる
nigoru
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid
濁流だくりゅう
dakuryuu
muddy stream
濁りにごり
nigori
muddiness; murkiness; cloudiness

Study notes

濁 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 16 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1883 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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