祚

祚

祚 U+795A, 祚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-795A ← 祙 [U+7959] CJK Unified Ideographs 祛 → [U+795B]

Translingual

Han character

祚 (radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火人尸 (IFOS), four-corner 3821₁, composition ⿰礻乍)

1. throne
2. bless
3. blessing, happiness

References

• KangXi: page 841, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24668
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2394, character 1
• Unihan data for U+795A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祚
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 (乍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
作	*ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡ
鲊	*ʔsraːʔ
痄	*ʔsraːʔ
厏	*ʔsraːʔ, *zraːʔ
詐	*ʔsraːɡs
咋	*ʔsraːɡs, *zraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ
笮	*ʔsraːɡs, *zaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
榨	*ʔsraːɡs
炸	*ʔr'aːɡs, *zreːb
乍	*zraːɡs
拃	*ʔsraːnʔ
酢	*sʰaːɡs, *zaːɡ
祚	*zaːɡs
胙	*zaːɡs
阼	*zaːɡs
飵	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
秨	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
迮	*ʔsaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
柞	*ʔsaːɡ, *zaːɡ
昨	*zaːɡ
怍	*zaːɡ
砟	*zaːɡ
莋	*zaːɡ
岝	*zaːɡ, *zraːɡ
鈼	*zaːɡ
筰	*zaːɡ
葃	*zaːɡ, *zreːɡ, *zaɡ
舴	*ʔr'aːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
窄	*ʔsraːɡ
蚱	*ʔsraːɡ
齚	*zraːɡ
泎	*zraːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zuò (zuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): chō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: tso⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuoh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zuò
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡swɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou⁶
    • Yale: jouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chō͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡zuo^H/▼

Rime
Character	祚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	昨誤切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɔH/
Li Rong	/d͡zoH/
Wang Li	/d͡zuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*zaːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祚
Reading #	1/1
No.	16655
Phonetic component	乍
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祚
Old Chinese	/*zaːɡs/

Definitions

祚

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Compounds

國祚／国祚 天祚 家祚 寶祚／宝祚 帝祚 年祚 祚命

祚胤 祿祚／禄祚 蒞祚／莅祚 薄祚寒門／薄祚寒门 趙崇祚／赵崇祚 踐祚／践祚

運祚／运祚 遼天祚帝／辽天祚帝 門祚／门祚 門衰祚薄／门衰祚薄 黃祚／黄祚 鼎祚

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Japanese

Kanji

祚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぞ (zo)
• Kan-on: そ (so)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祚い)

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Korean

Hanja

祚 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

祚 (tộ)

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