贈

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]

See also: 赠

Translingual

Shinjitai	贈
Simplified	赠
Traditional	贈

Alternative forms

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

Han character

贈 (radical 154 貝+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月金金田日 (BCCWA), four-corner 6886₆, composition ⿰貝曾 or ⿰貝曽)

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		贈
simp.		赠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 贈
Large seal script	Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zèng (zeng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zang⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): chn̄g / chēng / chān / cheng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tsêng⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzenq
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zang⁶
    • Yale: jahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzang⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeng⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chn̄g
    • Tâi-lô: tsn̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sŋ̍⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chēng
    • Tâi-lô: tsīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeng
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chān
    • Tâi-lô: tsān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zan
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡san⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡san³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡san³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡san²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡san²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng
    • Tâi-lô: tsing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

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

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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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*zɯːŋs/

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／貤赠
• 賠贈／赔赠
• 賻贈／赙赠

• 贈予／赠予
• 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 (zèngyǔ)
• 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
• 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
• 餽贈／餽赠
• 饋贈／馈赠 (kuìzèng)

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Japanese

Kanji

贈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぞう (zō)
• Kan’on: そう (sō)
• Kun: おくる (okuru, 贈る)

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 (tặng)

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