漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
赦: pardon, forgiveness
攵 carries the meaning · 赤 carries meaning and sound
One reading, and the words that use it
シャsha · on'yomi · in compounds
- 恩赦おんしゃamnesty; pardon
- 容赦ようしゃpardon; forgiveness; tolerance
- 容赦なくようしゃなくmercilessly; relentlessly; unsparingly
- 特赦とくしゃspecial pardon; (general) amnesty
- 赦免しゃめんpardon; remission; amnesty
Also read ゆるす, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)亦 (sound) + 攴 hand holding a stick (meaning)
In the bronze script, it was written as 𢼜, a phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 亦 + semantic 攴 (“hand holding a stick”). In later scripts, the phonetic component was replaced with 赤.
Source: Wiktionary, 赦 (rev. 93444509), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Red (赤) + strike/action (攵). It originally referred to a ritual of "cleansing" or "reddening" to wipe away a crime and release someone from punishment.”
Connections
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shè
Same form: 赦 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 赦 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 赦 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shè most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.