黜
to dismiss from office; to expel
Closest English meanings
dismiss·remove·oust
The Calligrapher — Zhào Mèngfǔ 赵孟頫
Yuan master whose elegant regular and running script revived classical tradition.
Yuan calligrapher (1254–1322), master of regular script/running script/cursive script — Yuan reviver of classical elegance who could write any script beautifully and did. Yuan dynasty
Cultural Story
《説文解字》gives 黜 as “貶下也” (to demote and lower), a phono-semantic compound from the black radical with the sound 出. To 黜 was to cast out of favor and office, struck from the rolls. The word governed the machinery of appointment and removal that ran the imperial bureaucracy.
Common words & phrases
- 罢黜 dismiss · oust
- 贬黜 demote and dismiss
- 黜退 dismiss · remove
- 黜陟 promote and dismiss
- 废黜 depose
Read the story behind the character
Officials are 罢黜 (dismiss, oust) and rivals 贬黜 (demote and dismiss) in palace dramas, while 黜退 (dismiss, remove) and 黜陟 (promote and dismiss) describe career moves. Even a deposed monarch is 废黜 (depose). From cabinet reshuffles to boardrooms, 黜 still means being shown the door.
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