Chinese symbol for “cesspool”
沤凼
òu dàng
Traditional: 漚凼
cesspool; compost pit
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cesspool is 沤凼 (òu dàng), defined as: cesspool; compost pit.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cesspool”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 沤凼.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沤肥 (漚肥) | òu féi | to make fertilizer by steeping organic materials in water and leaving them to decompose; fertilizer produced by this method |
| 沤步 (漚步) | òu bù | (Tw) dirty trick; unethical tactic (from Taiwanese 漚步, Tai-lo pr. [àu-pōo]) |
| 凼子 | dàng zi | pool; pit |
| 凼肥 | dàng féi | manure |
| 水凼 | shuǐ dàng | pond |
| 粪凼 (糞凼) | fèn dàng | cesspool; cesspit |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cesspool”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.