祭

Alternative forms

In Japanese handwriting, the diagonals of the upper right component cross: the short upper-right to lower-left stroke crosses the long upper-left to lower-right stroke, rather than abutting there.

Han character

祭 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月人一一火 (BOMMF), four-corner 2790₁, composition ⿱⿰𱼀⿺㇏㇇示)

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 祭, Shang ...

Historical forms of the character 祭
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : ⺼ (“meat”) + 又 (“hand”) + 示 (“altar, ceremony”) – the hand offers a piece of meat at the altar during a ceremony.

The top is not related to but may be corrupted to 癶 in calligraphy and handwriting; 癶 also served as the second-round simplified form of the component. The left part is ⺼ twisted to the left (compare 將, 然). The right part is a form of 又.

Pronunciation 1

Pronunciation 2

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02896
• (Min Nan) “Entry #7709”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• “祭”, 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

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. festival

Etymology

Hanja

祭 • (je, chae) (hangeul 제, 채, revised je, chae, McCune–Reischauer che, ch'ae, Yale cey, chay)

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Han character

祭: Hán Nôm readings: tế

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