漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
贈: presents, send
Also: give to, award to, confer on, presenting something
JLPT N218 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 曽 gives the sound
18 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ゾウzou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 贈与ぞうよpresentation, donation
- 贈賄ぞうわいbribery
- 贈答品ぞうとうひんgift, present
- 贈呈するぞうていするgive, present
- 寄贈するきそう/きぞうするdonate, present
おくるokuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 贈るおくるsend, give to, award to
- 贈り物おくりものpresent, gift
Also read ソウ, 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)貝 (meaning) + 曾 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 贈 (rev. 93444256), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Shell/money (貝) + increase/then (曽). To take one's valuable "money" or "shells" and use them to bestow a generous, "increasing" gift upon another.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
曽
Also built on formerly (曽)
贈 takes the 曽 family's reading, ソウ (sou).
Also read ゾウ
11 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 赠 · traditional, as in Japanese · zèng
Japan keeps the traditional form 贈; mainland China simplifies it to 赠.
- Simplified
- 赠 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 贈 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zèng 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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