Translingual

Han character

諸 (radical 149 言+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口十大日 (YRJKA), four-corner 0466₀, composition ⿰言者)

References

• KangXi: page 1172, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35691
• Dae Jaweon: page 1637, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3982, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8AF8

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjaː, *tja) : semantic 言 + phonetic 者 ‎(OC *tjaːʔ).

Etymology

諸 (*ta, "many, all") is considered a dependent (non-adjunctive) pronoun, gradually replacing 多 (*tlai, “many, all”). The two may be cognate, and it may be conceivable that 諸 had branched off from 多 in the sense "all" as the pre-nominal proclitic with the loss of the final *-i in 多.

Probably also cognate with 都 (dū, “all”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

諸

1. many; each; every; all (forming plurals; especially for persons to whom respect is due)

   諸侯 / 诸侯  ―  zhūhóu  ―  all the feudal lords

   諸位 / 诸位  ―  zhūwèi  ―  all those present

   諸子百家 / 诸子百家  ―  zhūzǐbǎijiā  ―  Hundred Schools of Thought

2. Contraction of 之乎.
3. Contraction of 之於. it + into/onto/unto

   置諸死地 / 置诸死地  ―  zhì zhū sǐ dì  ―  to kill someone (lit. to put someone into the territory of death)

4. A surname​.

Compounds

References

• (Min Nan) “Query for 諸”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. various
2. many
3. several
4. together

Readings

• Goon: しょ (sho)
• Kan’on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: もろ (moro)

Korean

Hanja

諸 • ‎(je, jeo)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 제, 저 (revised: je, jeo, McCune-Reischauer: che, chŏ, Yale: cey, ce)

• Name (hangeul): 모두, 김치()

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Vietnamese

Han character

諸 (chư, chơ, chưa, chã, chở, chứa, đã)

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