U+660C, 昌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-660C

[U+660B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+660D]

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

(Kangxi radical 72, +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日日 (AA), four-corner 60600, composition)

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 491, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13803
  • Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1490, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+660C

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character
Shang Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Shizhoupian script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
             

Ideogrammic compound (會意): semantic (sun) + semantic (mouth). During the Warring States Period, developed into .

Etymology 1Edit

(OC khlaŋ ~ thaŋ) is possibly related to (OC *laŋ), in which case it'd go back to *khlaŋ, supported by Proto-Vietic *hlaŋᴮ; note the phonetic parallelism with (OC k-hlaŋh) (Schuessler, 2007).

See (yáng) for further etymology.

PronunciationEdit


Note: chhiong/chhiang - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (24)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
coeng1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1249
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰjaŋ/

DefinitionsEdit

  1. (literary, or in compounds) prosperous; flourishing
  2. () (historical) Chang Prefecture
  3. a surname
  4. sunlight
  5. good; proper; right
  6. beautiful; lovely

SynonymsEdit

  • (prosperous):

AntonymsEdit

  • (prosperous):

CompoundsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit


Note: chhiuⁿ/chhioⁿ - vernacular.

DefinitionsEdit

  1. (Min Nan, in compounds) facial expression

CompoundsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit


DefinitionsEdit

  1. Alternative form of (chàng, “to initiate; to propose”).
  2. Alternative form of (chàng, “to chant; to recite”).

CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. good
  2. prosper

ReadingsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

, eumhun 창성할 (changseonghal chang)

  1. prosperity, flourishing, thriving

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

: Hán Nôm readings: xương

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