污
wū HSK5

filthy

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Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 亏 (于) represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component

water

于
于 Sound component

亏 and 于 both come from the same ancient character.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'waeqʷˤra impure, vile

說文解字

《說文》：“汙，薉也。一曰小池為汙。一曰涂也。从水，于聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)