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Translingual
Han character
鑠 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+15, 23 strokes, cangjie input 金女戈木 (CVID), four-corner 82194, composition ⿰釒樂)
- melt, smelt
- shine
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1326, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41019
- Dae Jaweon: page 1827, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4271, character 7
- Unihan data for U+9460
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 樂
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*ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
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| 轢
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*raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
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| 濼
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*pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ
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| 躒
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*raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
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| 擽
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*rawɢ, *reːwɢ
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| 爍
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*qʰljawɢ
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| 鑠
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*qʰljawɢ
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| 藥
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*lawɢ
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| 櫟
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*lawɢ, *reːwɢ
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| 纅
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*lawɢ
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| 礫
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*reːwɢ
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| 瓅
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*reːwɢ
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| 皪
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*reːwɢ
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| 觻
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*reːwɢ, *roːwɢ
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| 嚛
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*qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰljawɢ) : semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 樂 (OC *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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鑠
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shuò
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ syak ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*r̥ewk/ (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing)
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| English
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melt, infuse
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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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鑠
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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7679
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Phonetic
component
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樂
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Rime
group
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藥
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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爍
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Old
Chinese
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/*qʰljawɢ/
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Definitions
鑠
- to melt by heat; to fuse (metal)
- alt. forms: 爍 / 烁
- (literary) to weaken; to wear down
- (archaic) to permeate; to seep into
- fine; glorious
- Alternative form of 爍 / 烁 (“bright; brilliant; glittering”)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
鑠
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𮣏)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
鑠 • (sak) (hangeul 삭, revised sak, McCune–Reischauer sak, Yale sak)
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