U+6C61 "污" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+6C61 "污" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "dirt," "filth," or "pollution," and it is composed of the radical for water (氵) on the left side, indicating a connection to liquids, and the phonetic component 亏 on the right. In modern usage, it appears in words related to uncleanliness, such as 污染 (wūrǎn, meaning pollution), 污垢 (wūgòu, meaning grime), and 贪污 (tānwū, meaning corruption). The character plays a significant role in environmental, social, and moral contexts, often describing physical impurity or metaphorical contamination. This distinctive glyph is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, representing its widespread use across East Asian writing systems.