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贈

See also: 赠
贈 U+8D08, 贈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D08
← 贇
[U+8D07] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 贉 →
[U+8D09]

贈 U+FA65, 贈
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA65
← 賓
[U+FA64] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 辶 →
[U+FA66]

贈 U+FAC1, 贈
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAC1
← 變
[U+FAC0] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 輸 →
[U+FAC2]

Translingual

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Traditional 贈
Simplified 赠
Japanese 贈
Korean 贈

Alternative forms

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Note difference between Chinese form, which uses 曾, and Japanese shinjitai which uses 曽.

In Korea, the upper right component is 八 instead of 丷, which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Han character

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贈 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+12 in Chinese, 貝+11 in Japanese, 19 strokes in Chinese, 18 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 月金金田日 (BCCWA), four-corner 68866, composition ⿰貝曾(GHTKV or U+FA65) or ⿰貝曽(J or U+FAC1))

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1212, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36920
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1678, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3658, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8D08

Chinese

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trad. 贈
simp. 赠
alternative forms 𧸑

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 贈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   
Characters in the same phonetic series (曾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
潧 *ʔsrɯn
繒 *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
增 *ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs
憎 *ʔsɯːŋ
磳 *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
曾 *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ
矰 *ʔsɯːŋ
罾 *ʔsɯːŋ
熷 *ʔsɯːŋ
竲 *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
橧 *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
譄 *ʔsɯːŋ
蹭 *sʰɯːŋs
層 *zɯːŋ
贈 *zɯːŋs
僧 *sɯːŋ
鬙 *sɯːŋ
甑 *ʔsɯŋs
鄫 *zɯŋ
驓 *zɯŋ
嶒 *zɯŋ
噌 *sʰɯːŋ
鏳 *zrɯːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zɯːŋs) : semantic 貝 + phonetic 曾 (OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • chn̄g/chēng - literary;
  • chān - vernacular;
  • cheng - vernacular (俗).
Rime
Character 贈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 登 (129)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 昨亘切
Baxter dzongH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡zəŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡zəŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡zəŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡zəŋH/
Li
Rong 		/d͡zəŋH/
Wang
Li 		/d͡zəŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/d͡zʱəŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zèng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zang6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 贈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zèng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzongH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[dz]ˁəŋ-s/
English give

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 贈
Reading # 1/1
No. 16627
Phonetic
component 		曾
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		贈
Old
Chinese 		/*zɯːŋs/

Definitions

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贈

  1. to give as a present; to present with

Compounds

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Japanese

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Shinjitai 贈
Kyūjitai
[1]
贈
&#xFA65;
or
贈+&#xFE00;? 		 
贈󠄁
贈+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
贈󠄃
贈+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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贈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to present with

Readings

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Compounds

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ “贈”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

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Hanja

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贈 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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贈: Hán Nôm readings: tặng

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