赭

赭 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+8 in Chinese and Japanese, 赤+9 in Korean, 15 strokes in Chinese and Japanese, 16 strokes in Korean, cangjie input 土金十大日 (GCJKA), four-corner 4436₀, composition ⿰赤者)

1. reddish brown
2. hematite
3. ochre

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1214, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37017
• Dae Jaweon: page 1682, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3508, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8D6D

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(j)a-n ⪤ *tsa-n (“red”) (STEDT); cognate with Burmese တာ (ta, “red”) (as in Burmese နီတာရဲ (nitarai:, “of loud red color”)) and Burmese တျာတျာ (tya-tya, “scarlet”). According to Schuessler (2007), 朱 (OC *tjo) may be related.

赭

1. ^† red soil
2. ^† ochre dye
3. reddish brown; burnt ochre
4. ^† to dye red
5. ^† bare
6. ^† Short for 赭衣 (zhěyī, “red clothing worn by convicts”).
7. ^† to punish

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): しゃ (sha)
• Kun: あかつち (akatsuchi)、あか (aka)

赭 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjaːʔ) : semantic 赤 (xích, “red”) + phonetic 覩 (đổ).

赭: Hán Việt readings: giả^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}
赭: Nôm readings: đỏ^[1][2][3]

1. chữ Hán form of giả (“red soil, ochre, reddish brown”).
2. Nôm form of đỏ (“red”).