贖

See also: 赎 and ⿰貝売

贖 U+8D16, 贖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D16 ← 贕 [U+8D15] CJK Unified Ideographs 贗 → [U+8D17]

Translingual

Traditional	贖
Shinjitai (extended)	⿰貝売
Simplified	赎

Han character

贖 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 月金土田金 (BCGWC), four-corner 6488₆, composition ⿰貝賣)

1. buy, redeem
2. ransom
3. atone for

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1213, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36970
• Dae Jaweon: page 1679, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3660, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8D16

Chinese

trad.		贖
simp.		赎
alternative forms		𧹎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 贖
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (𧶠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
竇	*l'oːɡs
續	*ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
覿	*l'juːɡ
黷	*l'oːɡ
讟	*l'oːɡ
殰	*l'oːɡ
讀	*l'oːɡ
櫝	*l'oːɡ
牘	*l'oːɡ
儥	*l'oːɡ
贕	*l'oːɡ
皾	*l'oːɡ
瓄	*l'oːɡ
瀆	*l'oːɡ
豄	*l'oːɡ
韇	*l'oːɡ
嬻	*l'oːɡ
犢	*l'oːɡ
匵	*l'oːɡ
藚	*ljoɡ
襩	*ɦljoɡ
贖	*ɦljoɡ
𧶠	*luɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljoɡ) : semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ); the phonetic was originally 𧷏 and has later become graphically identical to the unrelated 賣.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-lu-t-s (“to ransom; to buy off”); compare Tibetan བླུ (blu) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shú (shu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): suk⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): su̍k

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sug⁶

• Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̆k
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sio̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sog⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shú
    • Wade–Giles: shu²
    • Yale: shú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: suk⁶
    • Yale: suhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: sug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /suk̚⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /sʊk̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̆k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syʔ⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: sio̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sog⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: so̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sok̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: zyowk

Rime
Character	贖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	燭 (8)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	神蜀切
Baxter	zyowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑɨok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑiok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑiok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑuawk̚/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiok̚/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭwok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯wok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	suk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.lok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljoɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	贖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shú
Middle Chinese	‹ zyowk ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.lok/
English	redeem
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	贖
Reading #	1/1
No.	16056
Phonetic component	𧶠
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	贖
Old Chinese	/*ɦljoɡ/

Definitions

贖

1. to redeem
2. to ransom

Compounds

• 以功贖罪／以功赎罪
• 勒贖／勒赎 (lèshú)
• 回贖／回赎 (huíshú)
• 將功贖罪／将功赎罪
• 擄人勒贖／掳人勒赎
• 救贖／救赎 (jiùshú)
• 百身何贖／百身何赎
• 百身莫贖／百身莫赎
• 立功贖罪／立功赎罪
• 納贖／纳赎
• 罰贖／罚赎
• 自贖／自赎
• 贖典／赎典
• 贖刑／赎刑
• 贖命／赎命
• 贖回／赎回 (shúhuí)
• 贖款／赎款
• 贖當／赎当
• 贖罪／赎罪 (shúzuì)
• 贖藥／赎药
• 贖身／赎身 (shúshēn)
• 贖金／赎金 (shújīn)

 

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	⿰貝売
Kyūjitai	贖

Kanji

贖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰貝売)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょく (shoku)
• Kun: あがなう (aganau, 贖う)

Korean

Hanja

贖 • (sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune–Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

1. washing away your sin, 속죄하다
2. clearing your debt by offering money, wealth or effort, 속바치다