秽 huì dirty
dirty; unclean; obscene
How to remember 秽: 禾 grain + 岁 years = dirty. Nobody has cleaned the old grain silo for years, and the kids come out covered in dust, dirty from head to toe.
Component breakdown
秽 = 禾 grain + 岁 years
- 禾 grain
- 岁 years
- 山 mountain
- 夕 evening
Nobody has cleaned the old grain silo for years, and the kids come out covered in dust, dirty from head to toe.
How it is used
- Filthy/foul, literal and moral - 污秽 (wūhuì) dirty/filthy, 秽物 (huìwù) filth.
- 秽语 (huìyǔ) means obscene language; 自惭形秽 (zìcán-xínghuì) means to feel inferior/ashamed of one's own inadequacy next to others. Formal/literary.