dirt / disgrace

垢 character breakdown

surname Hou
empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

= + 𠮛 : Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.

Characters with 垢 as component

垢 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 垢

filth / grime
dirt / grime
ear dirt / common word for earwax 耵聹|耵聍
to eat humble pie / to accept humiliation / to turn the other cheek
to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)
to bear shame and humiliation (idiom)

Sentences with 垢

垢 currently does not appear in any sentence.