贈

See also: 赠

贈 U+8D08, 贈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D08 ← 贇 [U+8D07] CJK Unified Ideographs 贉 → [U+8D09]

贈 U+FA65, 贈 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA65 ← 賓 [U+FA64] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 辶 → [U+FA66]

贈 U+FAC1, 贈 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAC1 ← 變 [U+FAC0] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 輸 → [U+FAC2]

Translingual

Traditional	贈
Simplified	赠
Japanese	贈
Korean	贈

Alternative forms

Note difference between Chinese form, which uses 曾, and Japanese shinjitai which uses 曽.

In Korea, the upper right component is 八 instead of 丷, which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Han character

贈 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+12 in Chinese, 貝+11 in Japanese, 19 strokes in Chinese, 18 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 月金金田日 (BCCWA), four-corner 6886₆, composition ⿰貝曾(GHTKV or U+FA65) or ⿰貝曽(J or U+FAC1))

Derived characters

• 囎

References

• KangXi: page 1212, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36920
• Dae Jaweon: page 1678, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3658, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8D08

• Unihan data for U+FA65

• Unihan data for U+FAC1

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Chinese

trad.		贈
simp.		赠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 贈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
潧	*ʔsrɯn
繒	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
增	*ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs
憎	*ʔsɯːŋ
磳	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
曾	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ
矰	*ʔsɯːŋ
罾	*ʔsɯːŋ
熷	*ʔsɯːŋ
竲	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
橧	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
譄	*ʔsɯːŋ
蹭	*sʰɯːŋs
層	*zɯːŋ
贈	*zɯːŋs
僧	*sɯːŋ
鬙	*sɯːŋ
甑	*ʔsɯŋs
鄫	*zɯŋ
驓	*zɯŋ
嶒	*zɯŋ
噌	*sʰɯːŋ
鏳	*zrɯːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zɯːŋs): semantic 貝 + phonetic 曾 (OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zèng (zeng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zang⁶
• Min Dong (BUC): câing
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chn̄g / chēng / chān / cheng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zang⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zèng
    • Wade–Giles: tsêng⁴
    • Yale: dzèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzenq
    • Palladius: цзэн (czɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zang⁶
    • Yale: jahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzang⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ²²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: câing
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saiŋ²⁴²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chn̄g
    • Tâi-lô: tsn̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zng
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡sŋ̍⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chēng
    • Tâi-lô: tsīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chān
    • Tâi-lô: tsān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zan
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡san²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡san⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡san³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng
    • Tâi-lô: tsing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zefng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

• chn̄g/chēng - literary;
• chān - vernacular;
• cheng - vernacular (俗).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zang⁷
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsāng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saŋ¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡zəŋ^H/

Rime
Character	贈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	昨亘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zəŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zəŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zəŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zəŋH/
Li Rong	/d͡zəŋH/
Wang Li	/d͡zəŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱəŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zèng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zang6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]ˤəŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zɯːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	贈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zèng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzongH ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]ˁəŋ-s/
English	give
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	贈
Reading #	1/1
No.	16627
Phonetic component	曾
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	贈
Old Chinese	/*zɯːŋs/

Definitions

贈

1. to give as a present; to present with

Compounds

• 回贈／回赠
• 奉贈／奉赠
• 封贈／封赠
• 惠贈／惠赠
• 捐贈／捐赠 (juānzèng)
• 敕贈／敕赠
• 綈袍之贈／绨袍之赠
• 腆贈／腆赠
• 致贈／致赠
• 誥贈／诰赠
• 貤贈／𰷠赠
• 賠贈／赔赠
• 賻贈／赙赠 (fùzèng)

• 贈予／赠予 (zèngyǔ)
• 贈別／赠别
• 贈品／赠品 (zèngpǐn)
• 贈嫁／赠嫁
• 贈序／赠序
• 贈獎／赠奖
• 贈禮／赠礼 (zènglǐ)
• 贈答／赠答
• 贈策／赠策
• 贈與／赠与
• 贈言／赠言 (zèngyán)
• 贈詩／赠诗
• 贈賻／赠赙

• 贈送／赠送 (zèngsòng)
• 贈遺／赠遗
• 贈閱／赠阅
• 轉贈／转赠 (zhuǎnzèng)
• 追贈／追赠
• 遺贈／遗赠 (yízèng)
• 采蘭贈芍／采兰赠芍
• 附贈／附赠
• 雪中贈襦／雪中赠襦
• 頒贈／颁赠 (bānzèng)
• 餽贈／馈赠
• 饋贈／馈赠 (kuìzèng)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	贈
Kyūjitai	贈 贈 or 贈+︀?
	贈󠄁 贈+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	贈󠄃 贈+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

贈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. to present with

Readings

• Go-on: ぞう (zō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: おくる (okuru, 贈る, Jōyō)
• Nanori: たま (tama); ます (masu)

Compounds

• 寄贈(きぞう) (kizō, “donation”)
• 贈呈(ぞうてい) (zōtei)
• 贈答(ぞうとう) (zōtō)
• 贈与(ぞうよ) (zōyo)
• 贈賄(ぞうわい) (zōwai)

See also

• 贈(おく)る (okuru)

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Korean

Hanja

贈 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

贈: Hán Nôm readings: tặng

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