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商

商 U+5546, 商
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5546
← 啅
[U+5545] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 啇 →
[U+5547]

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

商 (radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜金月口 (YCBR), four-corner 00227, composition ⿱⿱亠丷冏)

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 194, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3803
  • Dae Jaweon: page 415, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 288, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5546

ChineseEdit

trad. 商
simp. # 商

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 商
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
         
Characters in the same phonetic series (商) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
商 *hljaŋ
蔏 *hljaŋ
螪 *hljaŋ

EtymologyEdit

Traditionally it is considered that 商人 (shāngrén) is so named because this term originally refers to people from Shang dynasty, who tend to do business.

Schuessler (2007) lists two possible origins:

  1. 賒 (OC *hljaː), which may be related to Thai แลก (lɛ̂ɛk), plus terminative suffix *-ŋ;
  2. connected with Proto-Tibeto-Burman *lay (“change, exchange”) or Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b-ley (“barter”).

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 商
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 式羊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕɨaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiaŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shāng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 商 商 商
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shāng shāng shāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ syang › ‹ syang › ‹ syang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-taŋ/ /*s-taŋ/ /*s-taŋ/
English musical note (place name) estimate; business; trader

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 商
Reading # 1/1
No. 11097
Phonetic
component 		商
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		商
Old
Chinese 		/*hljaŋ/

DefinitionsEdit

商

  1. trade; commerce; business
  2. businessman; dealer
  3. (mathematics) quotient
    6除2的商是3  ―  6 chú 2 de shāng shì 3  ―  the quotient of 6 divided by 2 is 3
  4. (music) the second note in the Chinese pentatonic scale
  5. (～朝) Shang Dynasty
  6. to discuss; to consult

Coordinate termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Dynasties (朝代) in Chinese history
Name Time period Divisions
Xia
夏 (～朝, ～代) 		2070 – 1600 BCE
Shang
商 (～朝, ～代)
殷 (～朝, ～代) 		1600 – 1046 BCE
Zhou
周 (～朝, ～代) 		1046 – 256 BCE Western Zhou
西周
Eastern Zhou
東周／东周		 Spring and Autumn period
春秋
Warring States period
戰國／战国
Qin
秦 (～朝, ～代) 		221 – 206 BCE
Han
漢／汉 (～朝, ～代) 		206 BCE – 220 CE Western Han
西漢／西汉
Xin
新 (～朝)
Eastern Han
東漢／东汉
Three Kingdoms
三國／三国 		220 – 280 CE Wei
魏
Shu
蜀
Wu
吳／吴
Jin
晉／晋 (～朝, ～代) 		265 – 420 CE Western Jin
西晉／西晋
Eastern Jin
東晉／东晋
Southern and Northern dynasties
南北朝 		420 – 589 CE Northern dynasties
北朝		 Northern Wei
北魏
Western Wei
西魏
Eastern Wei
東魏／东魏
Northern Zhou
北周
Northern Qi
北齊／北齐
Southern dynasties
南朝		 Liu Song
劉宋／刘宋
Southern Qi
南齊／南齐
Liang
梁 (～朝, ～代)
Chen
陳／陈 (～朝, ～代)
Sui
隋 (～朝, ～代) 		581 – 618 CE
Tang
唐 (～朝, ～代) 		618 – 907 CE
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
五代十國／五代十国 		907 – 960 CE
Liao
遼／辽 (～朝, ～代) 		907 – 1125 CE
Song
宋 (～朝, ～代) 		960 – 1279 CE Northern Song
北宋
Southern Song
南宋
Western Xia
西夏 		1038 – 1227 CE
Jin
金 (～朝, ～代) 		1115 – 1234 CE
Western Liao
西遼／西辽 		1124 – 1218 CE
Yuan
元 (～朝, ～代) 		1271 – 1368 CE
Ming
明 (～朝, ～代) 		1368 – 1644 CE
Qing
清 (～朝, ～代) 		1636 – 1912 CE

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 商

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

商

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Compounds
 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
商
しょう
Grade: 3
on’yomi

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Chinese 商 (syang, “commerce”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

商 (hiragana しょう, rōmaji shō, historical hiragana しやう)

  1. dealing, dealer, merchant
  2. (arithmetic) quotient

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

商 • (sang) (hangeul 상)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

商 (thương)

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