灼

灼 U+707C, 灼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-707C ← 灻 [U+707B] CJK Unified Ideographs 災 → [U+707D]

Translingual

Han character

灼 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 火心戈 (FPI) or 火心一 (FPM), four-corner 9782₀, composition ⿰火勺)

Derived characters

• 䓎, 𥭓, 𭴰

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 666, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18878
• Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2189, character 16
• Unihan data for U+707C

Chinese

trad.		灼
simp. #		灼
alternative forms		⿰大匀 𤆥 烵 燋 𭴰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 灼
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
豹	*preːwɢs
趵	*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥	*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹	*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓	*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約	*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚	*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣	*pleːwɢs
瘹	*teːwɢs
芍	*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌	*pljewɢ
灼	*pljewɢ
勺	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴	*pljewɢ
犳	*pljewɢ
妁	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋	*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢	*bljewɢ
葯	*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿	*lewɢ
肑	*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝	*breːwɢ
的	*pleːwɢ
靮	*pleːwɢ
馰	*pleːwɢ
玓	*pleːwɢ
魡	*pleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pljewɢ): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ).

Etymology

Probably related to 曜 (OC *lewɢs, “to shine; daylight”); see there for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³ / coek³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chioh / chiok / chiak

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Wade–Giles: cho²
    • Yale: jwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: zoek³ / coek³
    • Yale: jeuk / cheuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸ / tsoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêg³ / cêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːk̚³/, /t͡sʰœːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chioh
    • Tâi-lô: tsioh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cioiq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sioʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siak̚³²/

Note:

• chioh - vernacular;
• chiok/chiak - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: tsyak

Rime
Character	灼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之若切
Baxter	tsyak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭak̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoek3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pljewɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	灼
Reading #	1/1
No.	11190
Phonetic component	勺
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	灼
Old Chinese	/*pljewɢ/

Definitions

灼

1. to burn; to scorch
2. to broil; to roast
3. to cauterize
4. bright; shining; luminous
5. used in 灼然 (zhuórán, “obvious; clear”)
6. (Cantonese) to briefly boil

Compounds

• 亮灼灼 (liàngzhuózhuó)
• 昭灼
• 桃灼呈祥 (táozhuóchéngxiáng)
• 氣勢熏灼 / 气势熏灼
• 深知灼見 / 深知灼见
• 灼亮
• 灼傷 / 灼伤 (zhuóshāng)
• 灼灼 (zhuózhuó)
• 灼然 (zhuórán)
• 灼熱 / 灼热 (zhuórè)
• 灼燒 / 灼烧
• 灼爍 / 灼烁
• 灼痛
• 灼背燒頂 / 灼背烧顶
• 灼臂
• 灼艾分痛
• 灼藥 / 灼药 (zhuóshuò)
• 灼見 / 灼见 (zhuójiàn)
• 灼見真知 / 灼见真知
• 灼骨
• 灼龜 / 灼龟
• 焦灼 (jiāozhuó)
• 燔灼
• 燒灼 / 烧灼 (shāozhuó)
• 燎灼
• 燥灼
• 真知灼見 / 真知灼见 (zhēnzhīzhuójiàn)
• 紅灼灼 / 红灼灼 (hóngzhuózhuó)
• 鑽灼 / 钻灼
• 閃灼 / 闪灼 (shǎnzhuó)
• 龜灼 / 龟灼

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02386
• “灼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	灼󠄀 灼+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
灼󠄂 灼+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Print standard	灼
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Kanji

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Category:Japanese terms spelled with 灼

灼

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: やく (yaku, 灼く)、あらた (arata, 灼)、あらたか (arataka, 灼)

Compounds

• 灼熱(しゃくねつ) (shakunetsu)
• 灼眼(しゃくがん) (shakugan)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
灼
あらた Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 灼 – see the following entry.

【新あらた】 [adjective] [from early 1000s] efficacious

(This term, 灼, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲灼”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

灼 • (jak, sa) (hangeul 작, 사, revised jak, sa, McCune–Reischauer chak, sa, Yale cak, sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

灼: Hán Nôm readings: chước

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References

• Nom Foundation