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贖
贖
See also: 赎
Translingual
Han character
贖 (radical 154 貝+15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 月金土田金 (BCGWC), four-corner 64886)
References
- KangXi: page 1213, character 8
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36970
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1679, character 24
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3660, character 10
 - Unihan data for U+8D16
 
Chinese
| trad. | 贖 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 赎 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 贖
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script | 
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (儥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 竇 | *l'oːɡs | 
| 續 | *ljoɡs, *ljoɡ | 
| 覿 | *l'juːɡ | 
| 黷 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 讟 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 殰 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 讀 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 櫝 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 牘 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 儥 | *l'oːɡ, *luɡ | 
| 贕 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 皾 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 瓄 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 瀆 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 豄 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 韇 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 嬻 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 犢 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 匵 | *l'oːɡ | 
| 藚 | *ljoɡ | 
| 襩 | *ɦljoɡ | 
| 贖 | *ɦljoɡ | 
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
 - Wade-Giles: shu2
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
 - IPA (key): /ʂu³⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: suk6
 - Yale: suhk
 - Cantonese Pinyin: suk9
 - IPA (key): /sʊk̚²/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Hakka
-  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su̍k
 - Hakka Romanization System: sug
 - Hagfa Pinyim: sug6
 - IPA: /suk̚⁵/
 
 
 -  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sio̍k
 - Tâi-lô: sio̍k
 - Phofsit Daibuun: siok
 - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɔk̚⁴/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɔk̚²⁴/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɔk̚¹²¹/
 - IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɔk̚⁴/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɔk̚⁴/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 贖 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 船 (27) | 
| Final (韻) | 燭 (8) | 
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 神蜀切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/ʑɨok̚/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/ʑiok̚/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/ʑiok̚/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/ʑuawk̚/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/d͡ʑiok̚/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/d͡ʑĭwok̚/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/d͡ʑʰi̯wok̚/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
shú | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 贖 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 16056 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
儥 | 
| Rime group  | 
屋 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
0 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
贖 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*ɦljoɡ/ | 
Definitions
贖
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
贖 • (sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune-Reischauer sok, Yale sok)
- washing away your sin, 속죄하다
 - clearing your debt by offering money, wealth or effort, 속바치다
 


