noun
muddiness; cloudiness; unclearness
Physical state of a liquid being murky or cloudy; also used figuratively for unclear situations or expressions.
川の水に濁りがある。
The river water is murky.
彼の説明には濁りがあった。
There was some ambiguity in his explanation.
noun
Spiritual or moral impurity, often used in religious or literary contexts to describe the world or one's heart.
心の濁りを清める。
Purify the impurities of the heart.
noun
dakuten; voicing mark
The diacritic mark (゛) added to kana to indicate a voiced consonant. Often used in the compound 濁点.
See also: 濁点
「か」に濁りをつけると「が」になる。
Adding a dakuten to 'ka' makes it 'ga'.
noun
Abbreviation of 濁り酒, referring to cloudy, unfiltered sake. Common in the context of traditional Japanese alcohol.
See also: 濁り酒
この居酒屋では濁りが人気だ。
Unrefined sake is popular at this izakaya.
濁点 specifically refers to the dakuten mark itself, while 濁り can refer to the mark or the state of being voiced.
濁り酒 is the full term for unrefined sake; 濁り is its common abbreviation.
Derived from the verb 濁る (にごる, 'to become muddy/cloudy'), with the nominalizing suffix り. The kanji 濁 carries the core meaning of 'muddiness' or 'impurity'.