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

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-tˤrek

dreak

zhé

blame, punish

*C.tˤrek

treak

zhé

blame (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5115th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B2B

Shuowen

“,罰也。从言,啻聲。”


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