賀

See also 贺

Translingual

賀 in several fonts

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 加 + semantic 貝 (“shellfish money”)

Han character

賀 (radical 154 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大口月山金 (KRBUC), four-corner 4680₆, composition ⿱加貝)

1. congratulate
2. send present
3. surname

References

• KangXi: page 1207, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36725
• Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3636, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8CC0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

賀 (simplified 贺, Yale ho6)

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Japanese

Kanji

賀 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: が (ga), か (ka)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu)

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Korean

Hanja

賀 (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

賀 (simplified 贺, pinyin hè (he4), Wade-Giles ho⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賀 (hạ)