賞

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 ⿳⺍冖員)

1. reward, grant, bestow
2. appreciate

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

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 / siúⁿ

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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
    • 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)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sióng / siúⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: sióng / siúnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siorng, sviuo
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/, /ɕiũ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/, /ɕiũ⁵³/

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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

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Japanese

Kanji

賞

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: ほめる (homeru)

Compounds

• 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, romaji -shō)

1. prize, award

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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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