詛

See also: 诅

詛 U+8A5B, 詛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A5B ← 詚 [U+8A5A] CJK Unified Ideographs 詜 → [U+8A5C]

Translingual

Han character

詛 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜口月一 (YRBM), four-corner 0761₀, composition ⿰訁且)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1156, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35390
• Dae Jaweon: page 1621, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3953, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8A5B

Chinese

trad.		詛
simp.		诅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 詛
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
虘	*zaːl, *zaː
蔖	*zlaːl, *sʰaːʔ
摣	*rnaː, *ʔsraː
袓	*ʔsjaː, *zaʔ
怚	*ʔsjaː, *ʔsas, *zaʔ
罝	*ʔsjaː
謯	*ʔslja, *ʔsraːʔ
姐	*ʔsjaːʔ
抯	*ʔsljaːʔ, *ljaːʔ, *ʔsraː
飷	*ʔsjaːʔ
且	*sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa
趄	*sʰjaːs, *sʰa
笡	*sʰjaːs
查	*ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː
柤	*ʔsraː
樝	*ʔsraː
皻	*ʔsraː
渣	*ʔsraː
楂	*zraː
苴	*zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa
駔	*ʔslaːŋʔ, *zaːʔ
租	*ʔsaː
蒩	*ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa
祖	*ʔsaːʔ
組	*ʔsaːʔ
珇	*ʔsaːʔ
靻	*ʔsaːʔ
粗	*sʰaː, *zaːʔ
徂	*zaː
殂	*zaː
麆	*zaːʔ, *zras
伹	*zaːʔ, *sʰa
蛆	*ʔsa, *sʰa
沮	*ʔsa, *ʔsas, *sʰa, *zaʔ, *ʔsra
咀	*ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ
疽	*sʰa
雎	*sʰa
狙	*sʰa, *sʰas
岨	*sʰa
砠	*sʰa
坥	*sʰa, *sʰas
刞	*sʰas
覰	*sʰas
覷	*sʰas
跙	*zaʔ
筯	*das
菹	*ʔsra
葅	*ʔsra
阻	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
俎	*ʔsraʔ
詛	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
鉏	*zra, *zraʔ
豠	*zra
鋤	*zra
耡	*zra, *zras
齟	*zraʔ
助	*zras

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǔ (zu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zo³
• Eastern Min (BUC): có
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tsu³
    • Yale: dzǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuu
    • Palladius: цзу (czu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zo³
    • Yale: jo
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzo³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔː³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: có
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zor
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrjoH

Rime
Character	詛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	莊助切
Baxter	tsrjoH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃiɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃiɔH/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭoH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zo3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsraʔ/, /*ʔsras/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	詛	詛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10448	10449
Phonetic component	且	且
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		詛
Old Chinese	/*ʔsraʔ/	/*ʔsras/

Definitions

詛

1. curse
2. to curse
3. to swear, pledge

Japanese

Kanji

詛

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. curse

Readings

• Go-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan-on: そ (so)
• Kun: のろう (norou, 詛う)

Korean

Hanja

詛 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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Vietnamese

Han character

詛 (trớ, chú, thư, trù)