Kanji Detail for 謫 - "blame, punish, exile, crime"

謫

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
謫 means "blame, punish, exile, crime."
1. Blame - To censure; to reproach.
2. Punish - To penalize.
3. Exile - To demote and banish to a distant place.
4. Crime - A fault; an offense.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

crime

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

charge, blame; disgrace; demote; punish

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile; (of immortals) to banish from Heaven; to censure; to blame

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to censure, to blame; to exile, to banish

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Punishing and censuring someone for their crime is called 謫. Therefore in old times, officials being demoted or exiled was also called 謫. Such as 謫降 (demotion), 謫戍 (exile to garrison duty).
Onyomi

chaku(ちゃく)

taku(たく)
Kunyomi

se.meru(せめる)
Strokes

18 strokes
Radical

言 (gen・gomben・kotoba)
Related Keywords
blame censure reproach punish penalize exile demote banish distant place crime fault offense