zhé

charge

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

啇 sound component

  Sound component

  

stalk, stem, root

Evolution

謫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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zhé

charge, blame; disgrace; demote; punish; to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile; (of immortals) to banish from Heaven; to censure; to blame

Most common words with 謫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to censure

贬谪

to relegate

谪居

(of officials in imperial China) to live in banishment

谪戍

in exile as penal servitude