# 祚

| 祚 | U+795A, &#31066; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-795A |
| ← 祙 [U+7959] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 祛 → [U+795B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

祚 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火人尸 (IFOS), four-corner 3821$_1$, composition ⿰礻乍)
* throne
* bless
* blessing, happiness

#### Derived characters

* 𣩋, 𨃼, 𦵬, 𮤞

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24668
* Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2394, character 1
* Unihan data for U+795A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祚 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 作 | *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡ |
| 鲊 | *ʔsraːʔ |
| 痄 | *ʔsraːʔ |
| 厏 | *ʔsraːʔ, *zraːʔ |
| 詐 | *ʔsraːɡs |
| 咋 | *ʔsraːɡs, *zraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ |
| 笮 | *ʔsraːɡs, *zaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ |
| 榨 | *ʔsraːɡs |
| 炸 | *ʔr'aːɡs, *zreːb |
| 乍 | *zraːɡs |
| 拃 | *ʔsraːnʔ |
| 酢 | *sʰaːɡs, *zaːɡ |
| 祚 | *zaːɡs |
| 胙 | *zaːɡs |
| 阼 | *zaːɡs |
| 飵 | *zaːɡs, *zaːɡ |
| 秨 | *zaːɡs, *zaːɡ |
| 迮 | *ʔsaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ |
| 柞 | *ʔsaːɡ, *zaːɡ |
| 昨 | *zaːɡ |
| 怍 | *zaːɡ |
| 砟 | *zaːɡ |
| 莋 | *zaːɡ |
| 岝 | *zaːɡ, *zraːɡ |
| 鈼 | *zaːɡ |
| 筰 | *zaːɡ |
| 葃 | *zaːɡ, *zreːɡ, *zaɡ |
| 舴 | *ʔr'aːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ |
| 窄 | *ʔsraːɡ |
| 蚱 | *ʔsraːɡ |
| 齚 | *zraːɡ |
| 泎 | *zraːɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zuò (zuo$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄛˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zou$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chō͘
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zuò
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zuò
*** Wade–Giles: tso$^4$
*** Yale: dzwò
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuoh
*** Palladius: цзо (czo)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zou$^6$
*** Yale: jouh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzou$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zou$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sou̯²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chō͘
*** Tâi-lô: tsōo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zo
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: dzuH
Rime :
| Character | 祚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 從 (15) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 昨誤切 |
| Baxter | dzuH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡zuo$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡zuo$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡zo$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡zɔ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡zo$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡zu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /d͡zʱuo$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zou$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*zaːɡs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 祚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16655 |
| Phonetic component | 乍 |
| Rime group | 暮 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 祚 |
| Old Chinese | /*zaːɡs/ |

### Definitions

祚
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#### Compounds

* 國祚／国祚 (guózuò)
* 天祚
* 家祚
* 寶祚／宝祚
* 帝祚
* 年祚
* 祚命
* 祚胤
* 祿祚／禄祚
* 蒞祚／莅祚
* 薄祚寒門／薄祚寒门
* 趙崇祚／赵崇祚
* 踐祚／践祚 (jiànzuò)
* 運祚／运祚
* 遼天祚帝／辽天祚帝
* 門祚／门祚
* 門衰祚薄／门衰祚薄
* 黃祚／黄祚
* 鼎祚

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ぞ (zo)
* Kan-on: そ (so)
* Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祚い)

## Korean
### Hanja

祚 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

祚: Hán Nôm readings: tộ
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