赭

赭 U+8D6D, 赭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D6D ← 赬 [U+8D6C] CJK Unified Ideographs 赮 → [U+8D6E]

Translingual

Han character

赭 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+8 in Chinese and Japanese, 赤+9 in Korean, 15 strokes in Chinese and Japanese, 16 strokes in Korean, Cangjie input 土金十大日 (GCJKA), four-corner 4436₀, composition ⿰赤者)

1. reddish brown
2. hematite
3. ochre

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1214, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37017
• Dae Jaweon: page 1682, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3508, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8D6D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		赭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
觰	*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸	*tjaː, *tja
者	*tjaːʔ
堵	*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	*djaː, *taː
奢	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮	*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠	*daː, *da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	*ta, *da
櫫	*ta
褚	*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著	*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸	*tas, *das
儲	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷	*tja, *djas
蠩	*tja
煮	*tjaʔ
渚	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署	*djas
薯	*djas
曙	*djas
書	*hlja
暑	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(j)a-n ⪤ *tsa-n (“red”) (STEDT); cognate with Burmese တာ (ta, “red”) (as in Burmese နီတာရဲ (nitarai:, “of loud red color”)) and Burmese တျာတျာ (tya-tya, “scarlet”). According to Schuessler (2007), 朱 (OC *tjo) may be related.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhě (zhe³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhě
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhě
    • Wade–Giles: chê³
    • Yale: jě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jee
    • Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ze²
    • Yale: jé
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zé²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyaeX

Rime
Character	赭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	章也切
Baxter	tsyaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiaX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiaX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciaX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiaX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭaX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯aX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ze2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tAʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	赭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhě
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyaeX ›
Old Chinese	/*tAʔ/
English	red earth; red pigment
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	赭
Reading #	1/1
No.	16962
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	者
Old Chinese	/*tjaːʔ/

Definitions

赭

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) red soil
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) ochre dye
3. reddish brown; burnt ochre
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to dye red
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bare
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) short for 赭衣 (zhěyī, “red clothing worn by convicts”)
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to punish

Compounds

• 赭土
• 赭石 (zhěshí)
• 赭紅 / 赭红
• 赭衣 (zhěyī)
• 赭衣半道
• 赭衣塞路
• 赭衣滿道 / 赭衣满道
• 赭面
• 赭黃 / 赭黄

Japanese

Kanji

赭

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゃ (sha)
• Kun: あかつち (akatsuchi)、あか (aka)

References

• “^▲赭”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

赭 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Nom glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, đỏ): semantic 赤 (“red”) + abbreviated phonetic 覩 (đổ).

Han character

赭: Hán Việt readings: giả
赭: Nôm readings: đỏ

1. chữ Hán form of giả (“red soil, ochre, reddish brown”)
2. chữ Nôm form of đỏ (“red”)