賞

賞 U+8CDE, 賞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CDE ← 賝 [U+8CDD] CJK Unified Ideographs 賟 → [U+8CDF]

See also: 赏 and 贘

Translingual

Han character

賞 (radical 154 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火月口月金 (FBRBC), four-corner 9080₆, composition ⿱龸員 or ⿱尚貝)

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

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Chinese

trad.		賞
simp.		赏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賞
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hjaŋʔ): phonetic 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 貝 (“cowry”).

Alternative forms

• 贘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǎng (shang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sóng
• Min Nan (POJ): sióng / siáng / siúⁿ / sióⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤˇ
    • Wade-Giles: shang³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaang
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng²
    • Yale: séung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng²
    • IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sóng
    • Hakka Romanization System: song`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: song³
    • IPA: /soŋ³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sióng
    • Tâi-lô: sióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siorng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáng
    • Tâi-lô: siáng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siarng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiaŋ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siúⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: siúnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sviuo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiũ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiũ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiũ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiũ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sióⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: siónn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svioir
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɔ̃⁵³/

Note:

• sióng/siáng - literary;
• siúⁿ/sióⁿ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨɐŋ^X/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*hjaŋʔ/

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

賞

1. reward, grant, bestow
2. appreciate

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Japanese

Kanji

賞

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: ほめる (homeru)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 賞金
• 賞賛
• 賞詞
• 賞賜
• 賞状
• 賞典
• 賞罰
• 賞美
• 賞品
• 賞味
• 賞与

Suffix

賞 (hiragana しょう, rōmaji -shō)

1. prize, award

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Korean

Hanja

賞 • (sang) (hangeul 상)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賞 (thưởng)

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