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尚

尚

See also: 尙

Translingual

Han character

尚 (radical 42 小+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火月口 (FBR), four-corner 90227, composition ⿱⺌冋)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 297, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7493
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 563, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5C1A

Chinese

trad. 尚/尙
simp. 尚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 尚
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (尚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
當 *taːŋ, *taːŋs
襠 *taːŋ
鐺 *taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
簹 *taːŋ
璫 *taːŋ
檔 *taːŋ, *taːŋs
儅 *taːŋ, *taːŋs
蟷 *taːŋ
擋 *taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
黨 *taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
讜 *taːŋʔ
欓 *taːŋʔ
譡 *taːŋs
闣 *taːŋs
瓽 *taːŋs
鏜 *tʰaːŋ
闛 *tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
鼞 *tʰaːŋ
曭 *tʰaːŋʔ
儻 *tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
戃 *tʰaːŋʔ
矘 *tʰaːŋʔ
爣 *tʰaːŋʔ
攩 *hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
淌 *tʰaːŋʔ
倘 *tʰaːŋʔ
躺 *tʰaːŋʔ
趟 *tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
堂 *daːŋ
坣 *daːŋ
棠 *daːŋ
糛 *daːŋ
螳 *daːŋ
隚 *daːŋ
橖 *daːŋ
掌 *tjaŋʔ
廠 *tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
敞 *tʰjaŋʔ
僘 *tʰjaŋʔ
氅 *tʰjaŋʔ
常 *djaŋ
嘗 *djaŋ
裳 *djaŋ
徜 *djaŋ
尚 *djaŋ, *djaŋs
甞 *djaŋ
鋿 *djaŋ
嫦 *djaŋ
償 *djaŋ, *djaŋs
賞 *hjaŋʔ
瞠 *rtʰaːŋ
撐 *rtʰaːŋ
樘 *rtʰaːŋ
橕 *rtʰaːŋ
牚 *rtʰaːŋs
埫 *tʰoŋʔ

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 尚
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 時亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尚
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]aŋ-s/
English upwards

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 尚
Reading # 2/2
No. 11161
Phonetic
component		 尚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 尚
Old
Chinese		 /*djaŋs/

Definitions

尚

  1. still; yet
  2. even
  3. fairly; rather
  4. to revere; to worship
  5. to hold in high esteem; to pay attention to; to admire
  6. to assist; to administer (for the emperor)
  7. noble; virtuous
  8. A surname​.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 尚
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 市羊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cháng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 尚
Reading # 1/2
No. 11156
Phonetic
component		 尚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 常
Old
Chinese		 /*djaŋ/
Notes 說文從向聲，金文不似，疑堂或常初文

Definitions

尚

  1. Variant pronunciation used in 尚書／尚书 (shàngshū, “position of the chief secretary”).

Japanese

Adverb

尚 ‎(hiragana なお, romaji nao)

  1. still, as always
  2. even more

Synonyms

Derived terms

Proper noun

尚 ‎(hiragana ひさし, romaji Hisashi)

  1. A male given name

Kanji

尚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. esteem

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

尚 • ‎(sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尚 (chuộng, thượng)

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