# 鑠

| 鑠 | U+9460, &#37984; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9460 |
| ← 鑟 [U+945F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鑡 → [U+9461] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 鑠 |
| Shinjitai (extended) | 𮣏 |
| Simplified | 铄 |

### Han character

鑠 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+15, 23 strokes, cangjie input 金女戈木 (CVID), four-corner 8219$_4$, composition ⿰釒樂)
* melt, smelt
* shine

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1326, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41019
* Dae Jaweon: page 1827, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4271, character 7
* Unihan data for U+9460

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 樂 | *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ |
| 轢 | *raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ |
| 濼 | *pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ |
| 躒 | *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ |
| 擽 | *rawɢ, *reːwɢ |
| 爍 | *qʰljawɢ |
| 鑠 | *qʰljawɢ |
| 藥 | *lawɢ |
| 櫟 | *lawɢ, *reːwɢ |
| 纅 | *lawɢ |
| 礫 | *reːwɢ |
| 瓅 | *reːwɢ |
| 皪 | *reːwɢ |
| 觻 | *reːwɢ, *roːwɢ |
| 嚛 | *qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰljawɢ): semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 樂 (OC *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shuò (shuo$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): soek$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siok / siak
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
*** Wade–Giles: shuo$^4$
*** Yale: shwò
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
*** Palladius: шо (šo)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: soek$^3$
*** Yale: seuk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: soek$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sêg$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /sœːk̚³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
*** Tâi-lô: siok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siog
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚³²/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
*** Tâi-lô: siak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siag
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /siak̚³²/
* Middle Chinese: syak
Rime :
| Character | 鑠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 藥 (107) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 書藥切 |
| Baxter | syak |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɕɨɐk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɕiɐk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɕiɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɕɨak̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ɕiak̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ɕĭak̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɕi̯ak̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shuo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | soek$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*r̥ewk/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰljawɢ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 鑠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shuò |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ syak › |
| Old Chinese | /*r̥ewk/ (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing) |
| English | melt, infuse |
| 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 | 鑠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7679 |
| Phonetic component | 樂 |
| Rime group | 藥 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 爍 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰljawɢ/ |

### Definitions

鑠
* to melt by heat; to fuse (metal)
    alt. forms: 爍 / 烁
* (literary) to weaken; to wear down
* (archaic) to permeate; to seep into
* fine; glorious
* Alternative form of 爍 / 烁 (“bright; brilliant; glittering”)

### Compounds

* 懿鑠 / 懿铄
* 日銷月鑠 / 日销月铄
* 流金鑠石 / 流金铄石
* 清鑠 / 清铄
* 燋鑠 / 燋铄
* 眾口鑠金 / 众口铄金 (zhòngkǒushuòjīn)
* 矍鑠 / 矍铄 (juéshuò)
* 群口鑠金 / 群口铄金
* 鑠金 / 铄金
* 鑠鑠 / 铄铄
* 震古鑠今 / 震古铄今

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 𮣏 |
| Kyūjitai | 鑠 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𮣏)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
* Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
* Kun: とろかす (torokasu, 鑠かす)、とかす (tokasu, 鑠かす)

## Korean
### Hanja

鑠 • (sak) (hangeul 삭, revised sak, McCune–Reischauer sak, Yale sak)
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