祚

Translingual

Han character

祚 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火人尸 (IFOS), four-corner 3821₁, composition ⿰礻乍)

1. throne
2. bless
3. blessing, happiness

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24668
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2394, character 1
• Unihan data for U+795A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祚
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (乍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
作	*ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡ
鲊	*ʔsraːʔ
痄	*ʔsraːʔ
厏	*ʔsraːʔ, *zraːʔ
詐	*ʔsraːɡs
咋	*ʔsraːɡs, *zraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ
笮	*ʔsraːɡs, *zaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
榨	*ʔsraːɡs
炸	*ʔr'aːɡs, *zreːb
乍	*zraːɡs
拃	*ʔsraːnʔ
酢	*sʰaːɡs, *zaːɡ
祚	*zaːɡs
胙	*zaːɡs
阼	*zaːɡs
飵	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
秨	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
迮	*ʔsaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
柞	*ʔsaːɡ, *zaːɡ
昨	*zaːɡ
怍	*zaːɡ
砟	*zaːɡ
莋	*zaːɡ
岝	*zaːɡ, *zraːɡ
鈼	*zaːɡ
筰	*zaːɡ
葃	*zaːɡ, *zreːɡ, *zaɡ
舴	*ʔr'aːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
窄	*ʔsraːɡ
蚱	*ʔsraːɡ
齚	*zraːɡ
泎	*zraːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zuò (zuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zuò
    • Wade–Giles: tso⁴
    • Yale: dzwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuoh
    • Palladius: цзо (czo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zou⁶
    • Yale: jouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chō͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzuH

Rime
Character	祚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	昨誤切
Baxter	dzuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɔH/
Li Rong	/d͡zoH/
Wang Li	/d͡zuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zou6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zaːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祚
Reading #	1/1
No.	16655
Phonetic component	乍
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祚
Old Chinese	/*zaːɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 祚

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Japanese

Kanji

祚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぞ (zo)
• Kan-on: そ (so)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祚い)

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Korean

Hanja

祚 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 祚 (tộ)

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