shāng

wine vessel

Components
角 meaning component

  Meaning component

jiǎojué

  

horn

horn

昜 sound component

  Sound component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

觴 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
觴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
觴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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shāng

wine vessel; propose toast; feast; goblet

Most common words with 觴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

feast

滥觞

the origin (of some phenomenon)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥aŋ

syang

shāng

goblet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5139th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+89F4

Shuowen

“觴,觶實曰觴,虛曰觶。从角,省聲。,籀文觴从爵省。”


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