Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1883 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: voiced, uncleanness, wrong, nigori, impurity

Kunyomi: にご.る にご.す

Onyomi: ダク ジョク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: water

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ダクリュウ muddy stream

ダクオン voiced consonant in Japanese

オダク pollution, contamination, corruption, graft

セイダク good and evil, purity and impurity, voiced and unvoiced consonants

ドブロク doburoku (unrefined sake)

ダクセ this corrupt or degenerate world, this world or life, the world of mankind

Kunyomi Examples

にごる to become muddy, to become cloudy, to get impure (of a liquid, gas, etc.), to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.), to become hoarse, to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.), to be corrupted, to be polluted, to become voiced, to add voiced consonant marks

にごす to make muddy (of a liquid), to make cloudy, to make turbid, to roil, to make ambiguous, to evade (e.g. the point), to be noncommittal about