陟

Han character

陟 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中卜中竹 (NLYLH), four-corner 7122₁, composition ⿰阝步)

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 陟, Western Zhou ...

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

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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 阝 (“mound; hill; raised ground”) + 步 (“step; two feet pointing upwards”). Cf. 降 (jiàng), with two feet pointing downwards.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-t(j)ak (“to climb; to ascend”) (STEDT). Compare 登 (OC *tɯːŋ) (Wang, 1923) < *s-tjaŋ, as well as Burmese တက် (tak, “to climb up, get in a vehicle”); see the latter for more cognates.

Pronunciation

Definitions

陟

1. (literary) to climb; to ascend

   • 陟彼屺兮，瞻望母兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhì bǐ qǐ xī, zhān wàng mǔ xī. [Pinyin]

     I ascend that bare hill,
     And look towards my mother.

2. (archaic, euphemistic, of a monarch) to die; to ascend to heaven

   • 十二年，王陟。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Bamboo Annals, circa 475 – 221 BCE

     Shí'èr nián, Wáng zhì. [Pinyin]

     In the twelfth year (of his reign), the King ascended.

3. (literary) to promote

   陟罰臧否／陟罚臧否  ―  zhìfázāngpǐ  ―  to reward good people and to punish bad people

Compounds

References

• “陟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. climb
2. rise

Hanja

陟 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

1. climb, scale, ascend
2. proceed

Han character

陟: Hán Nôm readings: trắc

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