The kanji 濁濁 primarily conveys the idea of turbidity, cloudiness, or muddiness, particularly related to liquids. It implies a state of being unclear, impure, or not transparent due to the presence of foreign substances. It can also extend to metaphorical senses, describing something that is corrupt, unclear, or impure in a figurative sense.

・On-yomi (音読み): ダク (daku), ジョク (joku) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): にご.る (nigo.ru - to become cloudy/muddy), にご.す (nigo.su - to make cloudy/muddy)

⚫︎濁流 Translation: muddy stream; turbulent current ⚫︎濁点 Translation: a voiced sound mark (dakuten - the double quote mark like " in が, だ, etc. that indicates a voiced sound) ⚫︎清濁併せ呑む Translation: to accept both good and bad; to tolerate everything (literally: to swallow both clear and muddy)

The kanji 濁濁 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字 - keisei moji). The semantic component is 水 (氵 or 水) meaning "water," which provides the semantic clue of the character’s meaning related to liquids. The phonetic component is 蜀 (shoku), which gives a clue to the sound of the kanji. It initially represented muddy or cloudy water. The addition of the "water" radical emphasizes this connection, refining its meaning to specify the cloudiness or impurity of liquids. Over time, it extended to include metaphorical applications like corruption and unclearness.