濯

Translingual

Han character

濯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 水尸一土 (ESMG), four-corner 3711₄, composition ⿰氵翟)

1. wash out, rinse
2. cleanse

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 657, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18532
• Dae Jaweon: page 1067, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1775, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6FEF

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Chinese

trad.		濯
simp. #		濯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 濯
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
櫂	*r'eːwɢs
濯	*r'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
耀	*lewɢs
曜	*lewɢs
燿	*lewɢs
糶	*l̥ʰeːwɢs
粜	*l̥ʰeːwɢs
嬥	*l'eːw, *l'eːwʔ, *l'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
藋	*l'eːwɢs
躍	*lewɢ
戳	*r'eːwɢ
擢	*r'eːwɢ
蠗	*r'eːwɢ
鸐	*r'eːwɢ
翟	*r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
趯	*l̥ʰeːwɢ
籊	*l̥ʰeːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
糴	*l'eːwɢ
䊮	*l'eːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *r'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 翟 (OC *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ) – to wash with water.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zok⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Wade–Giles: cho²
    • Yale: jwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zok⁶
    • Yale: johk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: draewH, draewk

Rime
Character	濯	濯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	直敎切	直角切
Baxter	draewH	draewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠauH/	/ɖˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚauH/	/ɖᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡauH/	/ȡɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖaɨwH/	/ɖaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/ȡauH/	/ȡɔk̚/
Wang Li	/ȡauH/	/ȡɔk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱauH/	/ȡʱɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhào	zhuó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zaau6	zok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤrewk-s/, /*lˤrewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*r'eːwɢs/, /*r'eːwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	濯	濯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhào	zhuó
Middle Chinese	‹ dræwH ›	‹ dræwk ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁrewk-s/	/*lˁrewk/
English	wash clothes	wash
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	濯	濯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2210	2222
Phonetic component	翟	翟
Rime group	豹	藥
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	棹	濁
Old Chinese	/*r'eːwɢs/	/*r'eːwɢ/

Definitions

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Kanji

濯

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: だく (daku)
• Kan-on: たく (taku)
• Kun: あらう (arau)

Compounds

• 洗濯(せんたく) (sentaku): washing; laundry
• 洗濯機(せんたっき) (sentakki): washing machine

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Korean

Hanja

濯 • (tak) (hangeul 탁, revised tak, McCune–Reischauer t'ak, Yale thak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

濯 (trạc)

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