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Translingual

Han character

(radical 154 +15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 月金土田金 (BCGWC), four-corner 64886)

  1. buy, redeem
  2. ransom
  3. atone for

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.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'oːɡs
*ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
覿 *l'juːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ, *luɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*ljoɡ
*ɦljoɡ
*ɦljoɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (27)
Final () (8)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 16056
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɦljoɡ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 以功贖罪以功赎罪
  • 勒贖勒赎
  • 回贖回赎
  • 將功贖罪将功赎罪
  • 擄人勒贖掳人勒赎
  • 百身何贖百身何赎
  • 百身莫贖百身莫赎
  • 立功贖罪立功赎罪
  • 納贖纳赎
  • 罰贖罚赎
  • 自贖自赎
  • 贖典赎典
  • 贖刑赎刑
  • 贖命赎命

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(sok) (hangeul , revised sok, McCune-Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

  1. washing away your sin, 속죄하다
  2. clearing your debt by offering money, wealth or effort, 속바치다