漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
賞: prize, reward
Also: praise
JLPT N215 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 尚 gives the sound
15 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ショウshou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 賞金しょうきんmonetary award
- 賞状しょうじょうcertificate of merit
- 賞品しょうひんprize
- 一等賞いっとうしょうfirst prize
- 鑑賞するかんしょうするadmire (art or decoration)
- 受賞するじゅしょうするwin a prize
- 授賞するじゅしょうするaward a prize
- 賞賛するしょうさんするpraise, admire
Also read ほめる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)商 (sound) + 貝 cowry (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 賞 (rev. 92321102), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尚
Also built on esteem (尚)
賞 takes the 尚 family's reading, ショウ (shou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side賞 prize · 尚 + 貝
vs潰 crush · 氵 + 貴In ChineseSimplified 赏 · traditional, as in Japanese · shǎng
Japan keeps the traditional form 賞; mainland China simplifies it to 赏.
- Simplified
- 赏 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 賞 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shǎng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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