赭

赭 U+8D6D, 赭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D6D ← 赬 [U+8D6C] CJK Unified Ideographs 赮 → [U+8D6E]

Translingual

Han character

赭 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+8 in Chinese and Japanese, 赤+9 in Korean, 15 strokes in Chinese and Japanese, 16 strokes in Korean, cangjie input 土金十大日 (GCJKA), four-corner 4436₀, composition ⿰赤者)

1. reddish brown
2. hematite
3. ochre

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1214, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37017
• Dae Jaweon: page 1682, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3508, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8D6D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		赭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
觰	*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸	*tjaː, *tja
者	*tjaːʔ
堵	*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	*djaː, *taː
奢	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮	*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠	*daː, *da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	*ta, *da
櫫	*ta
褚	*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著	*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸	*tas, *das
儲	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷	*tja, *djas
蠩	*tja
煮	*tjaʔ
渚	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署	*djas
薯	*djas
曙	*djas
書	*hlja
暑	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(j)a-n ⪤ *tsa-n (“red”) (STEDT); cognate with Burmese တာ (ta, “red”) (as in Burmese နီတာရဲ (nitarai:, “of loud red color”)) and Burmese တျာတျာ (tya-tya, “scarlet”). According to Schuessler (2007), 朱 (OC *tjo) may be related.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhě (zhe³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhě
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhě
    • Wade–Giles: chê³
    • Yale: jě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jee
    • Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ze²
    • Yale: jé
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zé²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyaeX

Rime
Character	赭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	章也切
Baxter	tsyaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiaX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiaX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciaX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiaX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭaX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯aX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ze2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tAʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	赭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhě
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyaeX ›
Old Chinese	/*tAʔ/
English	red earth; red pigment
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	赭
Reading #	1/1
No.	16962
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	者
Old Chinese	/*tjaːʔ/

Definitions

赭

1. ^† red soil
2. ^† ochre dye
3. reddish brown; burnt ochre
4. ^† to dye red
5. ^† bare
6. ^† Short for 赭衣 (zhěyī, “red clothing worn by convicts”).
7. ^† to punish

Compounds

• 赭土
• 赭石 (zhěshí)
• 赭紅／赭红
• 赭衣 (zhěyī)
• 赭衣半道
• 赭衣塞路
• 赭衣滿道／赭衣满道
• 赭面
• 赭黃／赭黄

 

Japanese

Kanji

赭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゃ (sha)
• Kun: あかつち (akatsuchi); あか (aka)

Korean

Hanja

赭 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Glyph origin (Nom)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjaːʔ) : semantic 赤 (xích, “red”) + phonetic 覩 (đổ).

Han character

赭: Hán Việt readings: giả
赭: Nôm readings: đỏ

1. chữ Hán form of giả (“red soil, ochre, reddish brown”).
2. Nôm form of đỏ (“red”).