U+6D4A "浊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6D4A "浊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese writing systems, primarily meaning "muddy," "turbid," or "impure." It is composed of the water radical (氵) on the left and the phonetic component "虫" on the right, reflecting its original association with murky or unsettled water. In classical and modern Chinese, the character extends metaphorically to describe murky situations, unclear sounds, or moral impurity, and it appears in terms such as 浑浊 (húnzhuó) meaning "muddy" and 浊音 (zhuóyīn) referring to voiced consonants in phonetics. This character is also used in Japanese kanji where it carries similar meanings, and it is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, making it accessible for digital text representation across multiple languages and platforms.