贄

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See also: 贽
贄 U+8D04, 贄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D04
← 贃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 贅 →

Translingual

Han character

贄 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 土戈月山金 (GIBUC), four-corner 45806, composition ⿱執貝)

  1. gift (presented to a senior at one’s first visit)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1211, character 46
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36907
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1678, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3656, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8D04

Chinese

trad. 贄
simp. 贽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (執) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
騺 *tibs
摯 *tjibs
贄 *tjibs
鷙 *tjibs
墊 *tiːms, *diːb
慹 *tjeb, *ndiːb, *sdib, *tjib
謺 *tjeb
褺 *diːb
蓻 *stib
縶 *tib
漐 *tʰib
蟄 *dib
執 *tjib
瓡 *tjib

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjibs) : phonetic 執 (OC *tjib) + semantic 貝 (“valuable”)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 贄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 脂利切
Baxter tsyijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ciH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 贄
Reading # 1/1
No. 17277
Phonetic
component 		執
Rime
group 		位
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		至
Old
Chinese 		/*tjibs/

Definitions

贄

  1. gift (present typically carried by the visitor for ceremonious occasions)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

贄

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • On (unclassified): し (shi)
  • Kun: にえ (nie, 贄)←にへ (nife, 贄, historical)

Compounds

Compounds with 贄
Names
Names with 贄

Etymology

Kanji in this term
贄
にえ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
牲
嘗

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Noun

贄(にえ) • (nie) ←にへ (nife)?

  1. an offering to the gods
  2. a gift
  3. a sacrifice

Korean

Hanja

贄 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

贄: Hán Nôm readings: chí

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