Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhé
English
- charge, blame
- to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China)
- disgrace
- to banish or exile
- demote
- (of immortals) to banish from Heaven
- punish
- to censure
- to blame
- to reproach ----
- to demote an official
粵語
- 同責備
- 古時將官員降職,發配邊疆
Variants
Words containing 謫
- 貶謫bin2 zaak6
to banish from the court; to relegate
- 指謫zi2 zaak6
to criticize
- 謫居zaak6 geoi1
(of officials in imperial China) to live in banishment
- 謫仙zaak6 sin1
a genius (literally, an immortal who has been banished from heaven to live on earth), an epithet for exceptional individuals such as the Tang poet Li Bai 李白[Li3 Bai2]
- 謫戍zaak6 syu3
in exile as penal servitude