陟

Translingual

Han character

陟 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中卜中竹 (NLYLH), four-corner 7122₁, composition ⿰阝步)

Derived characters

• 騭(骘)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1351, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41659
• Dae Jaweon: page 1853, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4131, character 1
• Unihan data for U+965F

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 陟
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 阝 (“mound; hill; raised ground”) + 步 (“step; two feet pointing upwards”). Cf. 降 (jiàng), with two feet pointing downwards.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-t(j)ak (“to climb; to ascend”) (STEDT). Cf. 登 (OC *tɯːŋ) (Wang, 1923) < *s-tjaŋ.

Pronunciation

Definitions

陟

1. (literary) to climb; to ascend

   • 陟彼屺兮，瞻望母兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhì bǐ qǐ xī, zhān wàng mǔ xī.

     I ascend that bare hill,
     And look towards my mother.

2. (archaic, euphemistic, of a monarch) to die; to ascend to heaven

   • 十二年，王陟。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Bamboo Annals, circa 475 – 221 BCE

     Shí'èr nián, Wáng zhì.

     In the twelfth year (of his reign), the King ascended.

3. (literary) to promote

   陟罰臧否／陟罚臧否  ―  zhìfázāngpǐ  ―  to reward good people and to punish bad people

Compounds

References

• “陟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. climb
2. rise

Readings

• Go-on: ちき (chiki)
• Kan-on: ちょく (choku)
• Kan’yō-on: とく (toku)
• Kun: のぼる (noboru, 陟る); すすむ (susumu, 陟む)
• Nanori: たかし (takashi); のぼる (noboru)

Korean

Hanja

陟 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

1. climb, scale, ascend
2. proceed

Vietnamese

Han character

陟: Hán Nôm readings: trắc

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