鬻

鬻 (Kangxi radical 193, 鬲+12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 弓弓一口月 (NNMRB), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿱粥鬲)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1459, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45721
• Dae Jaweon: page 1992, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4590, character 15
• Unihan data for U+9B3B

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *luɡ) : phonetic 䰜 (, “cauldron”) + semantic 米 (“rice”) — congee. 鬲 is a cauldron with three hollow legs, in which 米 (“rice”) is cooked. The two 弓 depict the steam emitted from the congee in the cauldron.

粥 (“congee”) is the reduced form of the character 鬻. 鬻 has since been phonetically borrowed to mean "to sell".

"to sell"

Compare Khmer លក់ (lŭək, “to sell; to fine”) (Schuessler, 2007). May not be related to 贖 (OC *ɦljoɡ, “to redeem”).

鬻

1. ^† to sell; to vend

   • 百里奚自鬻於秦養牲者，五羊之皮。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     百里奚自鬻于秦养牲者，五羊之皮。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Bǎilǐ Xī zì yù yú qín yǎng shēng zhě, wǔ yáng zhī pí. [Pinyin]

     Bai Li Xi sold himself to a cattle-keeper of Qin for the skins of five rams.

2. ^† to use; to usurp
3. ^† Alternative form of 育 (“to nourish”)

• (to sell):

鬻

1. ^† Alternative form of 粥 (“congee”)

鬻

1. ^† young and small; immature

• “鬻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鬻”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 293.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to sell; to peddle

• Go-on: いく (iku)、しゅく (shuku)^{←しゆく (syuku, historical)}
• Kan-on: いく (iku)、しゅく (shuku)^{←しゆく (syuku, historical)}
• On: きく (kiku)、び (bi)
• Kun: かい (kai, 鬻)、かゆ (kayu, 鬻)、ひさぐ (hisagu, 鬻ぐ)、ひさく (hisaku, 鬻く)

• 鬻(ひさき)人(びと) (hisakibito, “peddler”)
• 鬻(ひさき)女(め) (hisakime, “female peddler”)

鬻: Hán Nôm readings: chúc, dục

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