賂

See also: 赂

賂 U+8CC2, 賂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CC2 ← 賁 [U+8CC1] CJK Unified Ideographs 賃 → [U+8CC3]

賂 U+F948, 賂 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F948 ← 磊 [U+F947] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 雷 → [U+F949]

Translingual

Han character

賂 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月金竹水口 (BCHER), four-corner 6786₄, composition ⿰貝各)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1207, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36738
• Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3639, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8CC2

• Unihan data for U+F948

Chinese

trad.		賂
simp.		赂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賂
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
髂	*kʰraːɡs
路	*ɡ·raːɡs
輅	*ɡ·raːɡs
賂	*ɡ·raːɡs
虂	*ɡ·raːɡs
露	*ɡ·raːɡs
潞	*raːɡs
鷺	*raːɡs
璐	*raːɡs
簬	*raːɡs
簵	*ɡ·raːɡs
洛	*ɡ·raːɡ
駱	*ɡ·raːɡ
絡	*ɡ·raːɡ
酪	*ɡ·raːɡ
烙	*ɡ·raːɡ
雒	*ɡ·raːɡ
珞	*ɡ·raːɡ
硌	*ɡ·raːɡ
袼	*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿	*ɡ·raːɡ
鉻	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥	*ɡ·raːɡ
鵅	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落	*ɡ·raːɡ
各	*klaːɡ
胳	*klaːɡ
閣	*klaːɡ
格	*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱	*klaːɡ
恪	*kʰlaːɡ
愙	*kʰaːɡ
貉	*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢	*ɡlaːɡ
佫	*ɡlaːɡ
略	*ɡ·raɡ
茖	*kraːɡ
骼	*kraːɡ
觡	*kraːɡ
蛒	*kraːɡ
敋	*kraːɡ
客	*kʰraːɡ
喀	*kʰraːɡ
揢	*kʰraːɡ
額	*ŋɡraːɡ
峉	*ŋɡraːɡ
頟	*ŋɡraːɡ
詻	*ŋɡraːɡ
垎	*ɡraːɡ
楁	*ɡraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·raːɡs): semantic 貝 (“shell; money”) + phonetic 各 (OC *klaːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lù (lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): lu

  (Meixian, Guangdong): lu⁴

• Jin (Wiktionary): lueh⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lù
    • Wade–Giles: lu⁴
    • Yale: lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
    • Palladius: лу (lu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lou⁶
    • Yale: louh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lu
    • Hakka Romanization System: lu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /lu⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: lu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /lu⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: lueh⁴
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /luəʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō͘
    • Tâi-lô: lōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lo
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /lɔ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: luH

Rime
Character	賂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	洛故切
Baxter	luH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luoH/
Pan Wuyun	/luoH/
Shao Rongfen	/loH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɔH/
Li Rong	/loH/
Wang Li	/luH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	賂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lù
Middle Chinese	‹ luH ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁak-s/
English	wealth; present (v.)
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	賂
Reading #	1/1
No.	3858
Phonetic component	各
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	路
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːɡs/

Definitions

賂

1. bribe; bribery
2. to bribe; to buy off
3. (literary) to present (a gift)
4. (literary) money and goods as gifts; (in general) money and goods

Compounds

• 受賂 / 受赂
• 招權納賂 / 招权纳赂
• 苞苴賄賂 / 苞苴贿赂
• 貨賂 / 货赂 (huòlù)
• 貨賂公行 / 货赂公行
• 賄賂 / 贿赂 (huìlù)
• 賄賂公行 / 贿赂公行
• 賄賂并行 / 贿赂并行

Japanese

Kanji

賂

(Jōyō kanji)

1. bribe

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: ろ (ro, Jōyō)
• Kun: まいない (mainai, 賂い)、まいなう (mainau, 賂う)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 賂 (MC luH). Recorded as Middle Korean 뢰〯 (lwǒy) (Yale: lwoy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

賂 (eumhun 뇌물 뢰 (noemul roe), word-initial (South Korea) 뇌물 뇌 (noemul noe))

1. hanja form^? of 뢰/뇌 (“bribe; bribery”)

Compounds

• 뇌물 (賂物, noemul)
• 수뢰 (受賂, suroe)
• 회뢰 (賄賂, hoeroe)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

賂: Hán Nôm readings: lộ

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