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See also: 诛
誅 U+8A85, 誅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A85
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 誆 →

Translingual

Han character

誅 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹十木 (YRHJD), four-corner 05690, composition ⿰訁朱)

  1. execute, kill, put to death
  2. punish

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1160, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35472
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1625, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3964, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8A85

Chinese

trad. 誅
simp. 诛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咮 *tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株 *to
誅 *to
邾 *to
鼄 *to
跦 *to
袾 *to, *tʰjo
鴸 *to, *tjo
蛛 *to
殊 *to, *djo
趎 *do
珠 *tjo
朱 *tjo
侏 *tjo
絑 *tjo
祩 *tjo, *tjos
鮢 *tjo
硃 *tjo
姝 *tʰjo
銖 *djo
茱 *djo
洙 *djo
陎 *djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *to): semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 朱 (OC *tjo).

Etymology

Perhaps related to 觸 (OC *tʰjoɡ, “to butt, knock against”); see there for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 誅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 陟輸切
Baxter trju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʈɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȶio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈuə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ȶio/
Wang
Li 		/ȶĭu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȶi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zyu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 誅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ trju ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tro/
English punish; kill

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 誅
Reading # 1/1
No. 17558
Phonetic
component 		朱
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		株
Old
Chinese 		/*to/

Definitions

誅

  1. to execute; to kill; to put to death
  2. to punish
    不教而誅／不教而诛  ―  bùjiào'érzhū  ―  punishing children with no education
  3. to censure; to blame
    殺人誅心／杀人诛心  ―  shārén zhūxīn  ―  the best way to exterminate someone is to uncover and denounce their evil intentions.
  4. (Cantonese, mahjong) to discard tiles such that the next player cannot improve their hand
    Antonym: 鬆 / 松 (sung1)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

誅

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. blame
  2. kill, execute

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

誅 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

誅: Hán Nôm readings: tru, trô

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