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Translingual
Han character
赦 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土金人大 (GCOK), four-corner 48340, composition ⿰赤攵)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1213, character 29
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36999
- Dae Jaweon: page 1681, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3507, character 6
- Unihan data for U+8D66
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 浾
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*sqraː
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| 嚇
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*qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ
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| 赦
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*hljaɡs
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| 郝
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*qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ
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| 赫
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*qʰraːɡ
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| 爀
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*qʰraːɡ
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| 赤
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*kʰljaɡ
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| 烾
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*kʰljaɡ
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| 螫
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*qʰjaːɡ
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| 赥
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*qʰleːɡ
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| 捇
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*qʰʷreːɡ
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| 焃
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*qʰʷreːɡ
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In the bronze script, it was written as 𢼜, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljaɡs) : phonetic 亦 (OC *laːɡ) + semantic 攴 (“hand holding a stick”). In later scripts, the phonetic component was replaced with 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ).
Etymology
Exoactive (causative) of 釋 (OC *hljaɡ, “to unloose; to release”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also related to 舍 (OC *hljaːʔ, “to let off”) (Wang, 1982), of which there exists a derived reading 舍 (OC *hljaːs, “to let off; to liberate”) that formed a variant relationship with 赦 (OC *hljaɡs), despite not having the same pronunciation in Old Chinese (*-aːs vs *-ags).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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赦
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shè
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ syaeH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*Ak-s/
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| English
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to pardon
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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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赦
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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1472
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Phonetic
component
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赤
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Rime
group
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暮
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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舎
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Old
Chinese
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/*hljaɡs/
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| Notes
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說文或從亦聲
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Definitions
赦
- to pardon; to forgive
- a surname
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
赦
(common “Jōyō” kanji)
- to pardon
Readings
Korean
Hanja
赦 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
赦: Hán Việt readings: xá
赦: Nôm readings: tha, xá, xóa/xoá
- Nôm form of tha (“to forgive”).
Compounds
References