奨

奨

See also: 奬, 獎, and 奖

奨 U+5968, 奨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5968 ← 奧 [U+5967] CJK Unified Ideographs 奩 → [U+5969]

Translingual

Traditional	獎
Shinjitai	奨
Simplified	奖

Han character

奨 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈大 (LIK), composition ⿱将大)

1. prize, reward
2. give award to

Derived characters

• 𮣗

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 253, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5990
• Dae Jaweon: page 515, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 547, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5968

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Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 奨 – see 獎 (“to reward someone with something as encouragement; to award; reward; prize; etc.”). (This character, 奨, is an ancient variant form of 獎.)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 奨 – see 奬 (“to reward someone with something as encouragement; to award; reward; prize; etc.”). (This character, 奨, is a nonstandard simplified form of 奬.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	奨
Kyūjitai	奬

Glyph origin

Simplified from 獎 (將 → 将 and 犬 → 大) in Japanese shinjitai.

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 大 + phonetic 将 () in current form.

Kanji

奨

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 奬)

1. exhort
2. praise

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru, 奨める); たすける (tasukeru, 奨ける)
• Nanori: すけ (suke); すすむ (susumu); たすく (tasuku); つとむ (tsutomu)

Alternative forms

• 獎

Compounds

• 奨(しょう)誡(かい) (shōkai)
• 奨(しょう)学(がく) (shōgaku)
• 奨(しょう)勧(かん) (shōkan)
• 奨(しょう)金(きん) (shōkin)
• 奨(しょう)順(じゅん) (shōjun) (将(しょう)順(じゅん))
• 奨(しょう)助(じょ) (shōjo)
• 奨(しょう)率(そつ) (shōsotsu)
• 奨(しょう)帥(そつ) (shōsotsu)
• 奨(しょう)擢(たく) (shōtaku)
• 奨(しょう)導(どう) (shōdō)
• 奨(しょう)抜(ばつ) (shōbatsu)
• 奨(しょう)誘(ゆう) (shōyū)
• 奨(しょう)揚(よう) (shōyō)
• 奨(しょう)励(れい), 奨(しょう)厲(れい) (shōrei)
• 恩(おん)奨(しょう) (onshō)
• 嘉(か)奨(しょう) (kashō)
• 勧(かん)奨(しょう) (kanshō)
• 推(すい)奨(しょう) (suishō)
• 選(せん)奨(しょう) (senshō)
• 抽(ちゅう)奨(しょう) (chūshō)
• 褒(ほう)奨(しょう) (hōshō)

 

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Korean

Hanja

奨 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang)

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