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U+8A93, 誓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A93

[U+8A92]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8A94]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 149, +7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手中卜一口 (QLYMR), four-corner 52601, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𡂉

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1162, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35514
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1627, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3973, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8A93

Chinese

More information simp. and trad., alternative forms ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 誓, Western Zhou ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljeds): phonetic (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed) + semantic (speech).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • se5 - literary;
  • syor5/sya5 - vernacular.

More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. to swear; to vow; to pledge
       shìshī   to take a mass pledge before one's troops
  2. oath; pledge; vow
       xuānshì   to take an oath

Compounds

References

  • ”, 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
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 212.
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Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. vow
  2. swear
  3. pledge

Readings

Etymology

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 うけい on Japanese Wikipedia

Continuative of 誓ふ (ukefu, to vow)

Noun

(うけい) (ukei) うけひ (ukefi)?

  1. (archaic, Shinto, Japanese mythology) an "oath", a ritual in which whether something is true or false, right or wrong, good or evil, etc. is judged based on whether the stated outcome of an act comes true as expected
    アマテラスとスサノオの誓約(うけい)
    Amaterasu to Susanoo no ukei
    the oath of Amaterasu and Susanoo


Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(seo) (hangeul , revised seo, McCuneReischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: thệ, thề

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