in English

huì
(bound form) dirty / filthy

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 穢, the traditional character: 秽 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Clerical script: 穢 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 污秽导致疾病。

    Filth breeds illnesses.

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