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Translingual
Han character
贖 (Kangxi 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
- Kangxi Dictionary: 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
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 竇
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*l'oːɡs
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| 續
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*ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
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| 覿
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*l'juːɡ
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| 黷
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*l'oːɡ
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| 讟
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*l'oːɡ
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| 殰
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*l'oːɡ
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| 讀
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*l'oːɡ
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| 櫝
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*l'oːɡ
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| 牘
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*l'oːɡ
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| 儥
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*l'oːɡ
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| 贕
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*l'oːɡ
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| 皾
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*l'oːɡ
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| 瓄
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*l'oːɡ
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| 瀆
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*l'oːɡ
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| 豄
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*l'oːɡ
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| 韇
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*l'oːɡ
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| 嬻
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*l'oːɡ
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| 犢
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*l'oːɡ
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| 匵
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*l'oːɡ
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| 藚
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*ljoɡ
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| 襩
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*ɦljoɡ
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| 贖
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*ɦljoɡ
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| 𧶠
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*luɡ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljoɡ) : semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ); the phonetic was originally 𧷏 and has later become graphically similar to the unrelated 賣.
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-lu-t-s (“to ransom; to buy off”); compare Tibetan བླུ (blu) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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贖
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shú
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ zyowk ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*Cə.lok/
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| English
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redeem
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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贖
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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16056
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Phonetic
component
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𧶠
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Rime
group
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屋
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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贖
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Old
Chinese
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/*ɦljoɡ/
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Definitions
贖
- to redeem
- to ransom
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
贖
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰貝売)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
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
