垢
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dirt; disgrace
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 土 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 垢
- Common rank
- #2,487
- Unicode
- U+57A2
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 垢
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蓬头垢面 | messy hair and dirty face; bad appearance | |
| 纯真无垢 | pure of heart | |
| 去垢剂 | detergent | |
| 藏垢纳污 | see 藏污納垢|藏污纳垢[cang2 wu1 na4 gou4] | |
| 藏污纳垢 | to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing;… | |
| 蓬首垢面 | see 蓬頭垢面|蓬头垢面[peng2 tou2 gou4 mian4] | |
| 除垢剂 | detergent | |
| 水垢 | limescale | |
| 油垢 | greasy dirt | |
| 耳垢 | earwax | |
| 牙垢 | dental plaque; tartar | |
| 积垢 | deeply accumulated filth | |
| 茶垢 | tea stain (on the inside of a tea pot, tea cup etc) | |
| 鼻垢 | dried nasal mucus; booger | |
| 泥垢 | dirt; grime | |
| 含垢忍辱 | (idiom) to bear shame and humiliation | |
| 忍辱含垢 | see 含垢忍辱[han2 gou4 ren3 ru3] | |
| 污垢 | variant of 污垢[wu1 gou4] | |
| 污垢 | dirt; filth; grime |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 后 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 后 sound part | after; behind, rear; descendants | |
| 诟 | to abuse, to scold; to berate, to insult | |
| 逅 | to meet unexpectedly |