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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)
- execute, kill, put to death
- 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
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 咮
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*tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
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| 株
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*to
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| 誅
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*to
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| 邾
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*to
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| 鼄
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*to
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| 跦
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*to
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| 袾
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*to, *tʰjo
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| 鴸
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*to, *tjo
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| 蛛
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*to
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| 殊
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*to, *djo
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| 趎
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*do
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| 珠
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*tjo
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| 朱
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*tjo
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| 侏
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*tjo
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| 絑
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*tjo
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| 祩
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*tjo, *tjos
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| 鮢
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*tjo
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| 硃
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*tjo
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| 姝
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*tʰjo
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| 銖
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*djo
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| 茱
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*djo
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| 洙
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*djo
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| 陎
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*djo
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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
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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誅
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhū
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ trju ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*tro/
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| English
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punish; kill
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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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誅
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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17558
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Phonetic
component
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朱
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Rime
group
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侯
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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株
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Old
Chinese
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/*to/
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Definitions
誅
- to execute; to kill; to put to death
民不出粟米麻絲、作器皿、通貨財以事其上，則誅。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
民不出粟米麻丝、作器皿、通货财以事其上，则诛。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: c. early 9th century, Han Yu (韓愈),《原道》, translated into English as True Faith of a Confucianist by Herbert Allen Giles, 1922.
- Mín bù chū sù mǐ má sī, zuò qìmǐn, tōng huòcái yǐ shì qí shàng, zé zhū.
- The people who fail to produce grain and flax and silk, fashion articles of everyday use, and interchange commodities in order to fulfil their obligations to their rulers ― should lose their heads.
- to punish
- 不教而誅／不教而诛 ― bùjiào'érzhū ― punishing children with no education
- 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.
- (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)
- blame
- 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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