muddiness; cloudiness; unclearness
Physical state of a liquid being murky or cloudy; also used figuratively for unclear situations or expressions.
The river water is murky.
There was some ambiguity in his explanation.
Spiritual or moral impurity, often used in religious or literary contexts to describe the world or one's heart.
Purify the impurities of the heart.
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
Adding a dakuten to 'ka' makes it 'ga'.
Abbreviation of 濁り酒, referring to cloudy, unfiltered sake. Common in the context of traditional Japanese alcohol.
See also: 濁り酒
Unrefined sake is popular at this izakaya.
muddy water; turbid water
muddy inlet; muddy creek
voiced consonant mark; dakuten
Standard kanji spelling for all senses.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially for the literal 'muddiness' sense.
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'.