污 — Chinese character
污
wū
filthy, dirty; polluted, impure
- Pinyin
- wū
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 氵 亏
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 亏
Common words with 污
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 污染 | wū rǎn | (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate |
| 贪污 (貪污) | tān wū | to be corrupt; corruption |
| 污水 | wū shuǐ | sewage |
| 污染物 | wū rǎn wù | pollutant |
| 环境污染 (環境污染) | huán jìng wū rǎn | environmental pollution |
| 污点 (污點) | wū diǎn | stain; taint |
| 污蔑 | wū miè | variant of 污蔑 (wū miè) |
| 污蔑 (污衊) | wū miè | to slander; to smear |
| 空气污染 (空氣污染) | kōng qì wū rǎn | air pollution |
| 油污 | yóu wū | greasy dirt; sludge (from an oil spill) |
| 污秽 (污穢) | wū huì | (literary) dirty; filthy; (literary) dirt; filth |
| 排污 | pái wū | to drain sewage |
English words written with 污
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.