祝

祝 U+795D, 祝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-795D ← 祜 [U+795C] CJK Unified Ideographs 神 → [U+795E]

祝 U+FA51, 祝 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA51 ← 祖 [U+FA50] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 禍 → [U+FA52]

㊗ U+3297, ㊗ CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH CONGRATULATION ← ㊖ [U+3296] Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㊘ → [U+3298]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

祝 (radical 113, 示+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈火口竹山 (IFRHU), four-corner 3621₀, composition ⿰礻兄(GHTJV) or ⿰示兄(K or U+FA51))

Derived characters

• 𠺷, 𣘌, 𨃷, 𤹙, 𡎺

References

• KangXi: page 842, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24672
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2393, character 1
• Unihan data for U+795D

• Unihan data for U+FA51

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祝
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (祝) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
祝	*tjuɡs, *tjuɡ
呪	*tjus
咒	*tjus
柷	*tjuɡ, *tʰjuɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk¹, zau³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chuk
• Min Nan (POJ): chiok
• Wu (Wiktionary): tsoq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
    • Wade–Giles: chu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zuk¹, zau³
    • Yale: jūk, jau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁷, dzau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zug¹, zeo³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵/, /t͡sɐu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chuk
    • Hakka Romanization System: zug`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zug⁵
    • IPA: /t͡suk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɔk̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tsoq (T4)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨu^H/, /t͡ɕɨuk̚/▼

Rime
Character	祝	祝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	職救切	之六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuH/	/t͡ɕɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuH/	/t͡ɕiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəuH/	/t͡ɕiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwH/	/cuwk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuH/	/t͡ɕiuk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəuH/	/t͡ɕĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯uH/	/t͡ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhòu	zhu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]uk-s/, /*[t]uk/, /*tuk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjuɡs/, /*tjuɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祝	祝	祝
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhòu	zhù	zhù
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuwH ›	‹ tsyuwk ›	‹ tsyuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]uk-s/	/*[t]uk/	/*tuk/
English	to curse	pray, recite	cut off, break
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祝	祝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17650	17653
Phonetic component	祝	祝
Rime group	奧	覺
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	呪	粥
Old Chinese	/*tjuɡs/	/*tjuɡ/
Notes	見詩，說文作詶，後作呪

Definitions

祝

1. to wish
2. to express good wishes
3. to pray for happiness or blessings
4. bless, boon, exalt(ing)
5. a spell, enchantment, ensorcellment
6. an incantation, mantra, chant
7. A surname​.

Compounds

Derived terms from 祝

• 卜祝
• 太祝
• 奈上祝下
• 對天祝告／对天祝告
• 尸祝
• 尸祝代庖
• 嵩祝
• 巫祝
• 廟祝／庙祝
• 慶祝／庆祝 (qìngzhù)
• 慶祝大會／庆祝大会
• 敬祝 (jìngzhù)
• 梁祝 (Liáng-Zhù)
• 祝付

• 祝允明
• 祝史
• 祝告
• 祝嘏
• 祝壽／祝寿 (zhùshòu)
• 祝壽延年／祝寿延年
• 祝巫
• 祝文 (zhùwén)
• 祝版
• 祝犁
• 祝由科
• 祝福 (zhùfú)
• 祝禱／祝祷
• 祝網／祝网

• 祝英臺／祝英台
• 祝融
• 祝詞／祝词
• 祝讚／祝赞
• 祝賀／祝贺 (zhùhè)
• 祝釐
• 祝願／祝愿 (zhùyuàn)
• 祝髮／祝发
• 禱祝／祷祝
• 華封三祝／华封三祝
• 華祝三多／华祝三多
• 詛祝／诅祝
• 預祝／预祝 (yùzhù)
• 馨香禱祝／馨香祷祝

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Japanese

Shinjitai	祝
Kyūjitai

Kanji

祝

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. celebrate, congratulate
2. blessing

Readings

• Goon: しゅ (shu); しゅく (shuku, Jōyō)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō, uncommon); しゅく (shuku, Jōyō)
• Kun: いわう (iwau, 祝う, Jōyō)
• Nanori: のりと (norito); のり (nori); ほぎ (hogi); ゆわい (yuwai)

Compounds

• 祝福 (しゅくふく) (shukufuku): a blessing
• 祝 (しゅう)印 (いん) (shūin): a blessed seal or stamp

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Korean

Hanja

祝 • (chuk, ju) (hangeul 축, 주, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, chu, Yale chwuk, cwu)

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Compounds

• 祝文 (축문)

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Vietnamese

Han character

祝 (chúc, chóc, chọc, chốc, chuốc, dốc, gióc)

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