赭

赭 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+8 in Chinese and Japanese, 赤+9 in Korean, 15 strokes in Chinese and Japanese, 16 strokes in Korean, cangjie input 土金十大日 (GCJKA), four-corner 4436₀, composition ⿰赤者)

1. reddish brown
2. hematite
3. ochre

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1214, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37017
• Dae Jaweon: page 1682, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3508, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8D6D

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(j)a-n ⪤ *tsa-n (“red”) (STEDT); cognate with Burmese တာ (ta, “red”) (as in Burmese နီတာရဲ (nitarai:, “of loud red color”)) and Burmese တျာတျာ (tya-tya, “scarlet”). According to Schuessler (2007), 朱 (OC *tjo) may be related.

赭

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) red soil
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) ochre dye
3. reddish brown; burnt ochre
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to dye red
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bare
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) short for 赭衣 (zhěyī, “red clothing worn by convicts”)
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to punish

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): しゃ (sha)
• Kun: あかつち (akatsuchi)、あか (aka)

赭 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, đỏ): semantic 赤 (“red”) + abbreviated phonetic 覩 (đổ).

赭: Hán Việt readings: giả^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}
赭: Nôm readings: đỏ^[1][2][3]

1. chữ Hán form of giả (“red soil, ochre, reddish brown”)
2. chữ Nôm form of đỏ (“red”)