鑠

See also: 𮣏 and 铄

鑠 U+9460, 鑠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9460 ← 鑟 [U+945F] CJK Unified Ideographs 鑡 → [U+9461]

Translingual

Traditional	鑠
Shinjitai (extended)	𮣏
Simplified	铄

Han character

鑠 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+15, 23 strokes, cangjie input 金女戈木 (CVID), four-corner 8219₄, composition ⿰釒樂)

1. melt, smelt
2. shine

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1326, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41019
• Dae Jaweon: page 1827, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4271, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9460

Chinese

trad.		鑠
simp.		铄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樂	*ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
轢	*raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
濼	*pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ
躒	*raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
擽	*rawɢ, *reːwɢ
爍	*qʰljawɢ
鑠	*qʰljawɢ
藥	*lawɢ
櫟	*lawɢ, *reːwɢ
纅	*lawɢ
礫	*reːwɢ
瓅	*reːwɢ
皪	*reːwɢ
觻	*reːwɢ, *roːwɢ
嚛	*qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰljawɢ) : semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 樂 (OC *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuò (shuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soek³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siok / siak

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
    • Wade–Giles: shuo⁴
    • Yale: shwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
    • Palladius: шо (šo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: soek³
    • Yale: seuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
    • Tâi-lô: siok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siak̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: syak

Rime
Character	鑠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	書藥切
Baxter	syak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨak̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiak̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭak̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soek3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*r̥ewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰljawɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鑠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ syak ›
Old Chinese	/*r̥ewk/ (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing)
English	melt, infuse
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	鑠
Reading #	1/1
No.	7679
Phonetic component	樂
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	爍
Old Chinese	/*qʰljawɢ/

Definitions

鑠

1. to melt by heat; to fuse (metal)

   alt. forms: 爍／烁

2. (literary) to weaken; to wear down
3. (archaic) to permeate; to seep into
4. fine; glorious
5. Alternative form of 爍／烁 (“bright; brilliant; glittering”)

Compounds

• 懿鑠／懿铄
• 日銷月鑠／日销月铄
• 流金鑠石／流金铄石
• 清鑠／清铄
• 燋鑠／燋铄
• 眾口鑠金／众口铄金 (zhòngkǒushuòjīn)
• 矍鑠／矍铄 (juéshuò)
• 群口鑠金／群口铄金
• 鑠金／铄金
• 鑠鑠／铄铄
• 震古鑠今／震古铄今

 

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	𮣏
Kyūjitai	鑠

Kanji

鑠

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𮣏)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: とろかす (torokasu, 鑠かす)、とかす (tokasu, 鑠かす)

Korean

Hanja

鑠 • (sak) (hangeul 삭, revised sak, McCune–Reischauer sak, Yale sak)

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