昌

昌 U+660C, 昌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-660C ← 昋 [U+660B] CJK Unified Ideographs 昍 → [U+660D]

Translingual

Han character

昌 (radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日日 (AA), four-corner 6060₀, composition ⿱日曰)

Derived characters

• 倡 唱 猖 淐 娼 琩 椙 晿 焻 錩

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		昌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昌
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

Characters in the same phonetic series (昌) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
昌	*tʰjaŋ
倡	*tʰjaŋ, *tʰjaŋs
猖	*tʰjaŋ
菖	*tʰjaŋ
閶	*tʰjaŋ
鯧	*tʰjaŋ
裮	*tʰjaŋ
琩	*tʰjaŋ
唱	*tʰjaŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意): semantic 日 (“sun”) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). During the Warring States Period, 口 developed into 曰.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ

  (Chengdu, SP): cang¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhông
• Min Dong (BUC): chiŏng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhiong / chhiang / chhiuⁿ / chhioⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ciang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: cang¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: cang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng¹
    • Yale: chēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœ̽ːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhông
    • Hakka Romanization System: cong´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chiŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuoŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiong
    • Tâi-lô: tshiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiofng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiang
    • Tâi-lô: tshiang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiafng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiaŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiuⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshiunn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chviw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiũ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiũ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhioⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshionn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chvioy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔ̃⁴⁴/

Note:

• chhiong/chhiang - literary;
• chhiuⁿ/chhioⁿ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: ciang¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiang
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/▼

Rime
Character	昌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尺良切
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	昌
Reading #	1/1
No.	1249
Phonetic component	昌
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	昌
Old Chinese	/*tʰjaŋ/

Definitions

昌

1. ^† sunlight
2. ^† good; proper; right
3. ^† beautiful; lovely
4. prosperous; flourishing
5. (～州) (historical) Chang Prefecture
6. A surname​.

Compounds

• 不昌
• 五世其昌
• 光昌
• 南昌 (Nánchāng)
• 國運昌隆／国运昌隆
• 大昌 (Dàchāng)
• 太昌
• 孝昌 (Xiàochāng)
• 宜昌 (Yíchāng)
• 寖明寖昌
• 屯昌 (Túnchāng)
• 平昌 (Píngchāng)
• 文昌星
• 文昌魚／文昌鱼 (wénchāngyú)
• 昌光

• 昌化石
• 昌大
• 昌容
• 昌平 (Chāngpíng)
• 昌意
• 昌明 (chāngmíng)
• 昌江
• 昌盍
• 昌盛 (chāngshèng)
• 昌言
• 昌辭／昌辞
• 昌達／昌达 (Chāngdá)
• 昌隆
• 昌黎 (Chānglí)

• 晉昌／晋昌 (Jìnchāng)
• 東昌／东昌 (Dōngchāng)
• 東昌紙／东昌纸
• 樂昌破鏡／乐昌破镜
• 武昌 (Wǔchāng)
• 武昌剩竹
• 武昌起義／武昌起义
• 永昌 (yǒngchāng)
• 泰昌 (Tàichāng)
• 繁榮昌盛／繁荣昌盛
• 蕃昌 (fánchāng)
• 金昌 (Jīnchāng)
• 阿昌族 (Āchāngzú)
• 隆昌

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Japanese

Kanji

昌

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. good
2. prosper

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: さかん (sakan)
• Nanori: まさ (masa); あき (aki); よし (yoshi)

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Korean

Hanja

昌 (eumhun 창성할 창 (changseonghal chang))

1. prosperity, flourishing, thriving

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Vietnamese

Han character

昌 (xương)

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