賄

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See also: 贿
賄 U+8CC4, 賄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CC4
← 賃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賅 →

Translingual

Stroke order
13 strokes
Stroke order (Japan)
13 strokes

Han character

賄 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月金大月 (BCKB), four-corner 64827, composition ⿰貝有)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1208, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36745
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3638, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8CC4

Chinese

trad. 賄
simp. 贿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (又) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絠 *kɯːʔ
醢 *qʰɯːʔ
珛 *qʰʷɯs
栯 *ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
有 *ɢʷɯʔ
友 *ɢʷɯʔ
右 *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
宥 *ɢʷɯs
囿 *ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
侑 *ɢʷɯs
酭 *ɢʷɯs
姷 *ɢʷɯs
又 *ɢʷɯs
佑 *ɢʷɯs
祐 *ɢʷɯs
賄 *qʰʷɯːʔ
蛕 *qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
烠 *ɡʷɯː
倄 *ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
鮪 *ɢʷɯʔ
洧 *ɢʷɯʔ
痏 *ɢʷɯʔ
郁 *qʷɯ
戫 *qʷɯ
哊 *ɡʷɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷɯːʔ) : semantic 貝 (“cowry; money”) + phonetic 有 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Note: fui2 - rare variant.
Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • hóe - literary;
    • hé/hér - vernacular.
Rime
Character 賄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼罪切
Baxter xwojX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/huʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/huoiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xuɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hwəjX/
Li
Rong 		/xuᴀiX/
Wang
Li 		/xuɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xuɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		huǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fui2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 賄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		huì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xwojX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʷʰˁəʔ/
English property, valuables

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 賄
Reading # 1/1
No. 15607
Phonetic
component 		又
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		賄
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰʷɯːʔ/

Definitions

賄

  1. (literary) property; belongings
  2. (literary) to give a gift
  3. to bribe
  4. bribe
    受賄／受贿  ―  shòuhuì  ―  to accept a bribe

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

賄

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to pay
  2. to supply

Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 賄 (MC xwojX). Recorded as Middle Korean 회〯 (hwǒy) (Yale: hwoy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

賄 (eumhun 뇌물(賂物) 회)
賄 (eumhun 재물(財物) 회)

  1. hanja form? of 회 (“bribe; bribery”)
  2. hanja form? of 회 (“property; belongings”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

賄: Hán Nôm readings: hối

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