賊

賊 (radical 154, 貝+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月金戈十 (BCIJ), four-corner 6385₀, composition ⿰貝戎)

• KangXi: page 1208, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36759
• Dae Jaweon: page 1672, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3637, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8CCA

Historical forms of the character 賊
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zɯːɡ) : phonetic 則 (OC *ʔsɯːɡ) + semantic 戈 (“weapon”).

This was misinterpreted as a compound of 貝 (“money”) and 戎 (“weapon”) to produce the modern form.

Possibly Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan ཇག (jag, “robbery”) (Coblin, 1986). Schuessler (2007) points out that a palatalized consonant in Tibetan does not usually correspond to an unpalatalized one in Chinese; instead, he compares it to Khmer ឆក់ (chɑk, “to snatch; to steal”).

Possibly cognate with 災 (OC *ʔslɯː, “natural disaster”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Based on evidence from early loans from Chinese, e.g. Lakkia kjak⁸ (“bandit”) and Rục kəcʌ́ːk (“bandit”), Baxter and Sagart (2014) reconstructs the Old Chinese with a *k preinitial.

賊

1. ^† to damage; to corrupt; to ruin; to destroy
2. ^† to harm; to injure
3. ^† to slander
4. ^† to murder
5. ^† murderer
6. ^† harm; disaster
7. thief; bandit; robber (Classifier: 個／个 m c)

   琴日有賊入咗屋，偷走咗我部電腦。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   琴日有贼入咗屋，偷走咗我部电脑。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   Kam⁴ jat⁶ jau⁵ caak^6-2 jap⁶ zo² uk¹, tau¹ zau² zo² ngo⁵ bou⁶ din⁶ nou⁵. [Jyutping]

   Yesterday, a thief came into my house and stole my computer.

8. villain; traitor
9. ^† to steal
10. evil; wicked; treacherous
11. ^† to restrain
12. ^† ruthless; vicious
13. (colloquial) cunning; wily
14. (dialectal) very; extremely
15. ^† a kind of pest that eats the joints of a seedling

    蟊賊 / 蟊贼  ―  máozéi  ―  insects that eat the roots and the joints

• Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciation zé.

Others:

• → Vietnamese: giặc

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: ぞく (zoku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: そく (soku)
• Kun: そこなう (sokonau, 賊なう)

From Middle Chinese 賊 (MC d͡zək̚).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) ぞく [zòkú] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [d͡zo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

賊 (hiragana ぞく, rōmaji zoku)

1. thief
2. rebel

• 長髪賊 (ちょうはつぞく) (chōhatsuzoku, “Taiping rebels”)

賊 • (jeok) (hangeul 적)

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賊 (tặc, giặc)

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