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賞
賞
Translingual
Han character
賞 (radical 154 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火月口月金 (FBRBC), four-corner 90806, composition ⿳⺍冖員)
References
- KangXi: page 1209, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36813
- Dae Jaweon: page 1674, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3647, character 7
- Unihan data for U+8CDE
Chinese
| trad. | 賞 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 赏 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 賞
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|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hjaŋʔ) : phonetic 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 貝 (“cowry”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄤˇ
- Wade-Giles: shang3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaang
- IPA (key): /ʂɑŋ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: soeng2
- Yale: séung
- Cantonese Pinyin: soeng2
- IPA (key): /sœːŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sóng
- Hakka Romanization System: song`
- Hagfa Pinyim: song3
- IPA: /soŋ³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sióng / siúⁿ
- Tâi-lô: sióng / siúnn
- Phofsit Daibuun: siorng, sviuo
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/, /ɕiũ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/, /ɕiũ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/, /ɕiũ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/, /ɕiũ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɔŋ⁴¹/, /ɕiũ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賞 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 書兩切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɕɨɐŋX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɕiɐŋX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɕiɑŋX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɕɨaŋX/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɕiaŋX/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɕĭaŋX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɕi̯aŋX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
shǎng |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賞 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11163 |
| Phonetic component |
尚 |
| Rime group |
陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
賞 |
| Old Chinese |
/*hjaŋʔ/ |
Definitions
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Korean
Hanja
賞 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
賞 (thưởng)
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