鑠

See also: 𮣏 and 铄

鑠	U+9460, 鑠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9460

← 鑟
[U+945F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鑡 →
[U+9461]

Translingual

Traditional	鑠
Shinjitai (extended)	𮣏
Simplified	铄

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

trad.		鑠
simp.		铄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樂	ŋraːwɢs, raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
轢	raːd, raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
濼	pqʰlaːwɢ, raːwɢ, reːwɢ, pqʰloːwɢ, roːwɢ, roːwɢ
躒	raːwɢ, reːwɢ
擽	rawɢ, reːwɢ
爍	*qʰljawɢ
鑠	*qʰljawɢ
藥	*lawɢ
櫟	lawɢ, reːwɢ
纅	*lawɢ
礫	*reːwɢ
瓅	*reːwɢ
皪	*reːwɢ
觻	reːwɢ, roːwɢ
嚛	qʰloːwɢ, qʰloːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰljawɢ): semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 樂 (OC *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shuò (shuo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): soek³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siok / siak

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
  - Wade–Giles: shuo⁴
  - Yale: shwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
  - Palladius: шо (šo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: soek³
  - Yale: seuk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soek⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêg³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːk̚³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
  - Tâi-lô: siok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siog
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
  - Tâi-lô: siak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siag
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siak̚³²/

Middle Chinese: syak

Rime
Character	鑠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	書藥切
Baxter	syak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨak̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiak̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭak̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soek³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*r̥ewk/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰljawɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鑠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ syak ›
Old Chinese	/r̥ewk/ (W dialect: r̥- > *x-, palatalizing)
English	melt, infuse
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	鑠
Reading #	1/1
No.	7679
Phonetic component	樂
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	爍
Old Chinese	/*qʰljawɢ/

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

懿鑠 / 懿铄
日銷月鑠 / 日销月铄
流金鑠石 / 流金铄石
清鑠 / 清铄
燋鑠 / 燋铄
眾口鑠金 / 众口铄金 (zhòngkǒushuòjīn)
矍鑠 / 矍铄 (juéshuò)
群口鑠金 / 群口铄金
鑠金 / 铄金
鑠鑠 / 铄铄
震古鑠今 / 震古铄今

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	𮣏
Print standard	鑠

Kanji

鑠

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𮣏)

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Readings

Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
Kun: とろかす (torokasu, 鑠かす)、とかす (tokasu, 鑠かす)

Korean

Hanja

鑠 • (sak) (hangeul 삭, revised sak, McCune–Reischauer sak, Yale sak)

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