濁

Meaning

濁 centers on impurity or cloudiness that corrupts clarity: water that is muddy, a sound that is voiced (nigori), or something morally wrong or unclean.

• 濁るにごる
  N2

  to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid; to become impure (of a liquid or gas)

• 濁すにごす
  N1

  to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to roil

• 白濁はくだく

  cloudiness; turbidity; nebula (medical)

• 濁りにごり

  muddiness; murkiness; cloudiness; unclearness

• 濁流だくりゅう

  muddy stream

• 濁点だくてん

  dakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an unvoiced consonant into a voiced consonant

• 混濁こんだく

  becoming turbid; becoming muddy; becoming cloudy; becoming opaque

• 濁酒どぶろく

  doburoku (unrefined sake)

• 汚濁おだく

  pollution; contamination; corruption; graft

• 濁音だくおん

  syllable with a voiced consonant (in Japanese); voiced sound

• 清濁せいだく
  N1

  good and evil; purity and impurity

• 濁り酒にごりざけ

  unrefined sake; unfiltered sake; cloudy sake

• 鼻濁音びだくおん

  voiced nasal sound; nasal sonant

• お茶を濁すおちゃをにごす

  to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

• 乳濁にゅうだく

  emulsion

• 乳濁液にゅうだくえき

  emulsion

• 半濁点はんだくてん

  handakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an "h" sound into a "p" sound

• 半濁音はんだくおん

  syllable with a "p" sound (in Japanese)

• 半濁音符はんだくおんぷ

  handakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an "h" sound into a "p" sound

• 口を濁すくちをにごす

  to speak ambiguously; to be vague; to equivocate; to prevaricate

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