賀

See also: 贺

Translingual

賀 in several fonts

Han character

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

Descendants

• 𛀞

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		賀
simp.		贺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賀
Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (加) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
妿	*kaːl, *qaːl
賀	*ɡaːls
迦	*ka, *kal, *kraːl
茄	*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
伽	*ɡa, *ɡal
枷	*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
嘉	*kraːl
加	*kraːl
笳	*kraːl
痂	*kraːl
袈	*kraːl
跏	*kraːl
珈	*kraːl
鴐	*kraːl
架	*kraːls
駕	*kraːls
瘸	*ɡʷal

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaːls) : phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl) + semantic 貝 (“shellfish money”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 賀

1. to congratulate
2. to send present
3. a surname

   賀知章／贺知章  ―  Hè Zhīzhāng  ―  He Zhizhang / He Chih-chang (a Chinese poet, one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup)

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Japanese

Kanji

賀

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. congratulate, greet, celebrate

Readings

• Go-on: が (ga, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu, 賀ぶ)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
賀
が Grade: 4
goon

From Middle Chinese 賀 (MC haH).

Noun

賀(が) • (ga) 

1. congratulation

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Korean

Hanja

賀 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 賀 (hạ)

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