污
wū HSK5

filthy

污 wū
corrupt noun
morally dishonest or depraved

那个地方尽是贪官污吏。

nà gè dì​fang jìn shì tān​guān wū lì.

That place is full of corrupt officials.

defile verb
to smear, soil, or stain someone's reputation

不可污人清白。

bù​kě wū rén qīng​bái.

One must not defile someone's reputation.

dirty noun
physically unclean, filthy, or foul; dirt or grime

这件衣服沾上了油污。

zhè jiàn yī​fu zhān shàng le yóu​wū.

This piece of clothing got grease stains on it.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,405th most common 81.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,756th most common 29.4 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.49 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.59 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+6C61

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)