秽
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(bound form) dirty; filthy
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How 秽 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
禾 (semantic, “grain”) + 岁 (phonetic, suì)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 岁
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 岁 (suì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 岁 sound component | suì | year; years old, age; harvest |
| 哕 | yuě | to belch; to vomit |
| 刿 | guì | to cut, to injure, to stab; to stick on |
Words containing 秽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 污言秽语 | wū yán huì yǔ | (idiom) filthy speech; obscenities |
| 淫词秽语 | yín cí huì yǔ | (idiom) obscene words; dirty talk |
| 秽水 | huì shuǐ | dirty water; polluted water; sewage |
| 秽语 | huì yǔ | obscene language |
| 自惭形秽 | zì cán xíng huì | (idiom) to feel inferior; to feel inadequate |
| 污秽 | wū huì | (literary) dirty; filthy; (literary) dirt; filth |
| 淫秽 | yín huì | obscene; indecent; bawdy |
| 芜秽 | wú huì | to be overgrown with weeds |