EntryCommonJLPT N2WaniKani 60
  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verb

    to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid; to become impure (of a liquid or gas)

    川は泥で濁っていた。
    The river was cloudy with silt.
  2. to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become indistinct; to become fuzzy; to become hoarse

  3. to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted

  4. to become voiced (of a consonant); to be pronounced as a voiced sound

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

voiced, uncleanness, wrong, nigori, impurity

Kun
にご.るにご.す
On
ダクジョク
Strokes
16
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1883 of 2500
Radical
water
WaniKani
Level 58

Built from

Used in names as

にごり

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
1-3-13SKIP code
3a13.8The Kanji Dictionary
3612.7Four corner code
352deroo
6fc1Unicode hex code
1-34-89JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2710Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3348New Nelson (John Haig)
774New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
953Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
533Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
695Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
835Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
898Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1787A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2457Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1749Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
18440Morohashi
1558A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1625Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1735Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1507Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1836Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1511Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1255Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
843Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhuo2Pinyin reading
tagKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
58WaniKani level