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賞

shǎng

reward

Phonosemantic compound. 尚 represents the sound and 貝 represents the meaning.

Components
尚 sound component

尚  Sound component

shàng

  

esteem

貝 meaning component

貝  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

In ancient China shells were used as currency.

Evolution

賞 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
賞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
賞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
賞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

赏 (賞) 

shǎng

reward, grant, bestow; appreciate; to bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down; a reward (bestowed by a superior); to appreciate (beauty)

Most common words with 賞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

欣赏

to enjoy

赏

to hand down

观赏

ornamental

赞赏

to admire

奖赏

reward

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

償

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-taŋʔ

syangX

shǎng

reward (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 24.5715% of movies

1378th most common character in movies

1450th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

赏

Unicode

U+8CDE

Shuowen

“賞，賜有功也。从貝，尚聲。”


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