奨

See also: 奬, 獎, and 奖

Translingual

Traditional	獎
Shinjitai	奨
Simplified	奖

Etymology

Simplified from 獎 (將 → 将 and 犬 → 大) in Japanese shinjitai.

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 大 + phonetic 将 () in current form.

Han character

奨 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈大 (LIK), composition ⿱将大)

1. prize, reward
2. give award to

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 253, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5990
• Dae Jaweon: page 515, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 547, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5968

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 奨 – see 獎 (“to reward someone with something as encouragement; to award; reward; prize; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 獎).

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Japanese

Shinjitai	奨
Kyūjitai	獎

Kanji

奨

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 獎)

1. exhort

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru, 奨める)

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Korean

Hanja

奨 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang)

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