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)

buy, redeem
ransom
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 similar 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

(Hailu, HRS): sug^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): sug⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̆k
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeh⁷ / syoeh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sio̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): sog⁸

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 Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su̍k
  - Hakka Romanization System: sug
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /suk̚⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: sug^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /suk²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: sug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /sʊk̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̆k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /syʔ⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: soeh⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: se̤̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: syoeh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøʔ⁴/
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/

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/
Bernhard 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.