誅

See also: 诛

誅 U+8A85, 誅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A85 ← 誄 [U+8A84] CJK Unified Ideographs 誆 → [U+8A86]

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhū (zhu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tu / ti / chu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhū
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhu
    • Wade–Giles: chu¹
    • Yale: jū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ju
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyu¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tu
    • Tâi-lô: tu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti
    • Tâi-lô: ti
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su³³/

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• Middle Chinese: trju

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/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tro/

  (Zhengzhang): /*to/

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. *[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	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

   • 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. [Pinyin]

     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.

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

• 不教而誅／不教而诛 (bùjiào'érzhū)
• 伏誅／伏诛 (fúzhū)
• 受誅／受诛 (shòuzhū)
• 口誅筆伐／口诛笔伐 (kǒuzhūbǐfá)
• 天誅／天诛
• 天誅地滅／天诛地灭
• 得而誅之／得而诛之
• 撥亂誅暴／拨乱诛暴
• 族誅／族诛 (zúzhū)
• 比屋而誅／比屋而诛
• 神怒天誅／神怒天诛
• 禁暴誅亂／禁暴诛乱
• 罪不容誅／罪不容诛 (zuìbùróngzhū)
• 誅一警百／诛一警百
• 誅不避貴／诛不避贵
• 誅凶殄逆
• 誅凶討逆／诛凶讨逆
• 誅心之論／诛心之论 (zhūxīnzhīlùn)
• 誅意／诛意
• 誅戮／诛戮 (zhūlù)
• 誅暴討逆／诛暴讨逆
• 誅殛／诛殛
• 誅殺／诛杀 (zhūshā)
• 誅求／诛求 (zhūqiú)
• 誅求無厭／诛求无厌
• 誅求無已／诛求无已
• 誅滅／诛灭 (zhūmiè)
• 誅盡殺絕／诛尽杀绝
• 誅茅／诛茅
• 誅討／诛讨
• 誅鋤異己／诛锄异己
• 鬼戮神誅／鬼戮神诛

 

References

• “誅”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

誅

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. blame
2. kill, execute

Readings

• Go-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• On: ちゅ (chu)^{←ちゆ (tyu, historical)}
• Kun: うつ (utsu, 誅つ)、ころす (korosu, 誅す)、せめる (semeru, 誅める)、ほろぼす (horobosu, 誅ぼす)

Compounds

• 誅殺(ちゅうさつ) (chūsatsu, “execution”)
• 誅伐(ちゅうばつ) (chūbatsu, “punitive killing”)
• 天誅(てんちゅう) (tenchū, “heaven's punishment”)
• 苛斂誅求(かれんちゅうきゅう) (karenchūkyū, “heavy taxation and demand”)

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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