贖

See also: 赎

贖	U+8D16, 贖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D16

← 贕
[U+8D15]

CJK Unified Ideographs

贗 →
[U+8D17]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

buy, redeem
ransom
atone for

References[edit]

KangXi: page 1213, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36970
Dae Jaweon: page 1679, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3660, character 10
Unihan data for U+8D16

Chinese[edit]

trad.		贖
simp.		赎

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 贖
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
竇	*l'oːɡs
續	ljoɡs, ljoɡ
覿	*l'juːɡ
黷	*l'oːɡ
讟	*l'oːɡ
殰	*l'oːɡ
讀	*l'oːɡ
櫝	*l'oːɡ
牘	*l'oːɡ
儥	*l'oːɡ
贕	*l'oːɡ
皾	*l'oːɡ
瓄	*l'oːɡ
瀆	*l'oːɡ
豄	*l'oːɡ
韇	*l'oːɡ
嬻	*l'oːɡ
犢	*l'oːɡ
匵	*l'oːɡ
藚	*ljoɡ
襩	*ɦljoɡ
贖	*ɦljoɡ
𧶠	*luɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɦljoɡ): semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ); phonetic was originally 𧷏 and has become 賣／卖 (mài)

Pronunciation[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shú (shu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): suk⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): su̍k
Min Nan (POJ): sio̍k

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shú
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
  - Wade–Giles: shu²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shú
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: suk⁶
  - Yale: suhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su̍k
  - Hakka Romanization System: sug
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /suk̚⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sio̍k
  - Tâi-lô: sio̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siok
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɔk̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: /ʑɨok̚/

Rime
Character	贖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	燭 (8)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	神蜀切
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

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.lok/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɦljoɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	贖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shú
Middle Chinese	‹ zyowk ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.lok/
English	redeem
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	贖
Reading #	1/1
No.	16056
Phonetic component	𧶠
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	贖
Old Chinese	/*ɦljoɡ/

Definitions[edit]

贖

to redeem
to ransom

Compounds[edit]

贖回／赎回 (shúhuí)
贖款／赎款
贖當／赎当
贖罪／赎罪 (shúzuì)
贖藥／赎药
贖身／赎身 (shúshēn)
贖金／赎金 (shújīn)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

Readings[edit]

On (unclassified): しょく (shoku)
Kun: あがなう (aganau, 贖う)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

贖 • (sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune–Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

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

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