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贅 (Kangxi radical 154,貝+11, 18 strokes,cangjie input土大月山金 (GKBUC),four-corner48806,composition⿱敖貝)
| trad. | 贅 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 赘 | |
| Historical forms of the character贅 | |
|---|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan) | Liushutong (compiled inMing) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 聉 | *r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd |
| 贅 | *kljods |
| 祟 | *sqʰluds |
| 出 | *kʰljuds, *kʰljud |
| 茁 | *ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud |
| 欪 | *qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud |
| 貀 | *ŋr'uːd |
| 袦 | *ŋr'oːd |
| 咄 | *ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd |
| 柮 | *sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd |
| 拙 | *kljod |
| 炪 | *kljod, *l̥ʰud |
| 掘 | *ɡlod, *ɡlud |
| 鈯 | *l'uːd |
| 啒 | *kluːd, *qʰluːd |
| 淈 | *kluːd, *ɡluːd |
| 窟 | *kʰluːd |
| 泏 | *kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud |
| 堀 | *kʰluːd, *ɡlud |
| 胐 | *kʰluːd |
| 窋 | *ʔl'ud |
| 絀 | *ʔl'ud |
| 黜 | *l̥ʰud |
| 屈 | *klud, *kʰlud |
| 趉 | *klud |
| 鶌 | *klud |
| 詘 | *kʰlud |
| 倔 | *ɡlud |
| 崛 | *ɡlud, *ŋɡlud |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 敖(“ramble; travel”) + 貝(“money”) – "money that goes away and ought to be taken back" – originally meaning a kind ofcollateral, orpawn.贅 later was borrowed for sound to signify "belonging; attachment; linking", which is closer to the modern meaning of "superfluous".
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 贅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (36) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 之銳切 |
| Baxter | tsywejH |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕiuᴇiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕʷiɛiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕiuæiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cwiajH/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕiuɛiH/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭwɛiH/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi̯wɛiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhuì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zeoi3 |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 贅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1543 |
| Phonetic component | 出 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 贅 |
| Old Chinese | /*kljods/ |
贅
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| 贅 |
| ぜい Hyōgai |
| on'yomi |
Middle Chinese贅(t͡ɕiuᴇiH)
| Kanji in this term |
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| 贅 |
| ふすべ Hyōgai |
| irregular |
贅 (eum췌(chwe))
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