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 / sieh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sio̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): sog⁸
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁸zoq

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, Jiangkou, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: soeh⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: se̤̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœʔ⁴/
- (Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: soeh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /θœʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: syoeh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøʔ⁴/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sieh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬieʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sio̍k
  - Tâi-lô: sio̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siok
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔk̚¹²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siɔk̚⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sog⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: so̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sok̚⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁸zoq
  - MiniDict: zoh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵zoq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zoʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /zoʔ²³/

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.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	贖
Reading #	1/1
No.	16056
Phonetic component	𧶠
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	贖
Old Chinese	/*ɦljoɡ/

Definitions

贖

to redeem
to ransom

Compounds

以功贖罪 / 以功赎罪
勒贖 / 勒赎 (lèshú)
回贖 / 回赎 (huíshú)
將功贖罪 / 将功赎罪
擄人勒贖 / 掳人勒赎
救贖 / 救赎 (jiùshú)
百身何贖 / 百身何赎
百身莫贖 / 百身莫赎
立功贖罪 / 立功赎罪
納贖 / 纳赎
罰贖 / 罚赎
自贖 / 自赎
贖典 / 赎典
贖刑 / 赎刑 (shúxíng)
贖命 / 赎命
贖回 / 赎回 (shúhuí)
贖款 / 赎款 (shúkuǎn)
贖當 / 赎当 (shúdàng)
贖罪 / 赎罪 (shúzuì)
贖藥 / 赎药
贖身 / 赎身 (shúshēn)
贖金 / 赎金 (shújīn)

References

“贖”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03981
“贖”, 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–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “赎”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 288.

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	⿰貝売
Print standard	贖

Kanji

贖

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰貝売)

atonement

Readings

Go-on: ぞく (zoku)
Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
Kan’yō-on: とく (toku)
Kun: あがなう (aganau, 贖う)^{←あがなふ (aganafu, 贖ふ, historical)}、あがう (agau, 贖う)^{←あがふ (agafu, 贖ふ, historical)}、あが (aga, 贖)

Korean

Hanja

贖 • (sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune–Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

washing away your sin, 속죄하다
clearing your debt by offering money, wealth or effort, 속바치다