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垢

gòu

Character

What 垢 means

1. dirt
2. disgrace

Example sentences

• 汤姆喜欢在污垢里玩。
  Tāngmǔ xǐhuan zài wūgòu lǐ wán.
  Tom likes to play in the dirt.
• Tom洗去盘子上的污垢。
  Tom is washing the dirt off the plates.
• 他们不只是洗去汗水、污垢和镇日的操劳，同时也沉浸在闲话家常日常生活当中。
  Tāmen bù zhǐshì xǐ qù hànshuǐ, wū gòu hé zhènrì de cāoláo, tóngshí yě chénjìn zài xiánhuà jiācháng rìcháng shēnghuó dāngzhōng.
  They not only washed off the sweat, dirt and cares of the day in the hot water, but also enjoyed gossiping about everyday affairs.
• 苍蝇在镜子上游走，并不在乎脚尖栖息和奔跑映出的倒影；相反，它在光滑的表面上看到许多令它感兴趣的小东西，而我们却把这些东西当成是灰尘和污垢。
  The fly running on the mirror doesn't worry about its reflection on the points of its legs from which it sits and runs; but on the contrary, it sees on the smooth surface a quantity of very small things which interest it and which we confuse with dust and grime.

Words containing 垢

• 污垢wū gòudirt; filth; grime
• 蓬头垢面péng tóu gòu miànmessy hair and dirty face; bad appearance
• 水垢shuǐ gòulimescale
• 油垢yóu gòugreasy dirt
• 泥垢ní gòudirt; grime
• 牙垢yá gòudental plaque; tartar
• 积垢jī gòudeeply accumulated filth
• 耳垢ěr gòuearwax
• 茶垢chá gòutea stain (on the inside of a tea pot, tea cup etc)
• 鼻垢bí gòudried nasal mucus; booger
• 去垢剂qù gòu jìdetergent
• 除垢剂chú gòu jìdetergent
• 含垢忍辱hán gòu rěn rǔ(idiom) to bear shame and humiliation
• 纯真无垢chún zhēn wú gòupure of heart
• 藏污纳垢cáng wū nà gòuto hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept…
• 忍辱含垢rěn rǔ hán gòusee 含垢忍辱
• 蓬首垢面péng shǒu gòu miànsee 蓬头垢面
• 藏垢纳污cáng gòu nà wūsee 藏污纳垢

Characters built on 后

These share the phonetic component 后 (hòu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 逅hòuused in 邂逅
• 诟gòudisgrace; to revile
• 骺hóu(anatomy) epiphysis

Characters that look like 垢

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 始shǐto begin; to start; then
• 招zhāoto recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 抽chōuto draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole…
• 绌chùcrimson silk; deficiency; to stitch
• 拗ào(bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient
• 骊líblack horse; jet steed; good horse

Sounds the same

Read gòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 够enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (colloquial) (before adj.) really
• 购to buy; to purchase
• 构to construct; to form; to make up
• 勾used in 勾当
• 媾to marry; to copulate
• 诟disgrace; to revile
• 彀to draw a bow to the full; the range of a bow and arrow; old variant of 够
• 遘meet unexpectedly
• 姤copulate; good
• 冓inner rooms of palace; ten billions
• 觏complete; meet unexpectedly; see
• 雊crowing of pheasant