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]

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))

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祝
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

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, Beijing)⁺
    • 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 pray for happiness or blessings
2. bless, boon, exalt(ing)
3. a spell, enchantment, ensorcellment
4. an incantation, mantra, chant
5. 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
• 梁祝
• 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

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
• 祝印 (しゅういん) (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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