贖

See also: 赎

贖 U+8D16, 贖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D16 ← 贕 [U+8D15] CJK Unified Ideographs 贗 → [U+8D17]

Translingual

Han character

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

1. buy, redeem
2. ransom
3. atone for

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		贖
simp.		赎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 贖
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shú (shu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˊ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: shu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: suk⁶
    • Yale: suhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: sug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sug⁶
    • 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/

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• 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▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljoɡ/

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

贖

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Compounds

• 以功贖罪／以功赎罪
• 勒贖／勒赎
• 回贖／回赎
• 將功贖罪／将功赎罪
• 擄人勒贖／掳人勒赎
• 百身何贖／百身何赎
• 百身莫贖／百身莫赎

• 立功贖罪／立功赎罪
• 納贖／纳赎
• 罰贖／罚赎
• 自贖／自赎
• 贖典／赎典
• 贖刑／赎刑
• 贖命／赎命

• 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)

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Japanese

Kanji

贖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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