濯
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to wash; to cleanse of evil
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 水 +14
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 濯
- Common rank
- #3,203
- Unicode
- U+6FEF
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 濯 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 隹 sound ()
Components 氵 翟
Words with 濯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牛山濯濯 | treeless hills (idiom) | |
| 濯足 | to wash one's feet | |
| 童山濯濯 | treeless hill; (fig.) bald head | |
| 洗濯 | to wash; to cleanse; to launder | |
| 灌濯 | to wash; to rinse | |
| 浣濯 | to wash; to rinse | |
| 濯濯 | bare and bald (of mountains); bright and brilliant; fat and sleek | |
| 濯盥 | to wash oneself | |
| 祓濯 | to cleanse; to purify |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 隹 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隹 sound part | short-tailed bird; sparrow | |
| 维 | to preserve, to maintain, to hold together | |
| 推 | to push; to expel; to drive; to decline | |
| 准 | standard, accurate; to permit, to approve, to allow | |
| 堆 | crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles or stacks | |
| 锥 | gimlet, drill, awl; to drill, to bore | |
| 淮 | a river in Anhui province | |
| 椎 | spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet | |
| 稚 | young, immature; childhood | |
| 谁 | who? whom? whose? anyone? | |
| 睢 | to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited | |
| 帷 | curtain, screen, tent | |
| 擢 | to pull up, to raise; to select | |
| 槜 | white plum | |
| 骓 | piebald horse | |
| 碓 | pestle | |
| 萑 | grass, hay, straw |