濁

thick voice; husky voice; guttural voice; hoarse voice; gravelly voice

voice with a thick accent

good and evil; purity and impurity

Linguistics

voiced and unvoiced consonants

Idiomatic expression

to be broad-minded enough to associate with various types of people; to possess a capacious mind

Proverb

it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place, one should see that all is in good order

to leave a bad impression behind

Idiomatic expression

to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

゜

handakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an "h" sound into a "p" sound

Linguistics

syllable with a "p" sound (in Japanese)

Linguistics

voiced nasal sound; nasal sonant

water pollution

Chemistry

suspension (state)

emulsion

E.g. はな (花) + ひ (火) → はなび (花火)

rendaku; sequential voicing; in Japanese, an unvoiced sound becoming voiced when it is the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word

Chemistry

suspension (mixture)

Chemistry

emulsion

handakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an "h" sound into a "p" sound

being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil; being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades

oil pollution (in rivers, seas, etc.); oil spill

Slang; Euphemistic

semen; sperm

emulsion; turbid solution; slurry

to speak ambiguously; to be vague; to equivocate; to prevaricate

Law

Water Pollution Prevention Act

Proverb

it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place, one should see that all is in good order