Chinese symbol for “sordid”
龌浊
wò zhuó
Traditional: 齷濁
filthy; nasty; sordid; impure (motives)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sordid is 龌浊 (wò zhuó), defined as: filthy; nasty; sordid; impure (motives).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 龌浊.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 龌龊 (齷齪) | wò chuò | dirty; filthy; vile; despicable |
| 卑鄙龌龊 (卑鄙齷齪) | bēi bǐ wò chuò | sordid and contemptible (idiom); vile and repulsive (esp. character or action) |
| 卑陋龌龊 (卑陋齷齪) | bēi lòu wò chuò | sordid and contemptible (idiom); vile and repulsive (esp. character or action) |
| 黑龌 (黑齷) | hēi wò | unclean; filthy |
| 浑浊 (渾濁) | hún zhuó | muddy; turbid |
| 混浊 (混濁) | hùn zhuó | turbid; muddy |
| 污浊 (污濁) | wū zhuó | dirty; muddy |
| 浊音 (濁音) | zhuó yīn | (phonetics) voiced sound; sonant |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sordid”.
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.