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祝

祝

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

祝 (radical 113 示+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈火口竹山 (IFRHU), four-corner 36210)

References

  • KangXi: page 842, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24672
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2393, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+795D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 祝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祝
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (祝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
祝 *tjuɡs, *tjuɡ
呪 *tjus
咒 *tjus
柷 *tjuɡ, *tʰjuɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 祝 祝
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 職救切 之六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨuH/ /t͡ɕɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiuH/ /t͡ɕiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiəuH/ /t͡ɕiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuwH/ /cuwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiuH/ /t͡ɕiuk̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəuH/ /t͡ɕĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ə̯uH/ /t͡ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhòu zhu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祝 祝 祝
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhòu zhù zhù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyuwH › ‹ tsyuwk › ‹ tsyuwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t]uk-s/ /*[t]uk/ /*tuk/
English to curse pray, recite cut off, break

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 祝 祝
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17650 17653
Phonetic
component		 祝 祝
Rime
group		 奧 覺
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 呪 粥
Old
Chinese		 /*tjuɡs/ /*tjuɡ/
Notes 見詩，說文作詶，後作呪

Definitions

祝

  1. to pray for happiness or blessings
  2. bless, boon, exalt(ing)
  3. a spell, enchantment, ensorcellment
  4. an incantation, mantra, chant
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

祝

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. celebrate, congratulate
  2. blessing

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

祝 • ‎(chuk, ju) (hangeul 축, 주, McCune-Reischauer ch'uk, chu, Yale chwuk, cwu)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

祝 (chúc, chóc, chọc, chốc, chuốc, dốc, gióc)

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