醤

醤

See also: 醬

醤 U+91A4, 醤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91A4 ← 醣 [U+91A3] CJK Unified Ideographs 醥 → [U+91A5]

Translingual

Traditional	醬
Shinjitai (extended)	醤
Simplified	酱

Glyph origin

Unofficial Japanese Simplified from 醬 (將 → 将) (extended shinjitai); compare 奨.

Current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : phonetic 将 + semantic 酉 (“drink”)

Han character

醤 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈一金田 (LIMCW), composition ⿱将酉)

1. any jam-like or paste-like food

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1286, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 3593, character 16
• Unihan data for U+91A4

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Japanese

Shinjitai	醤
Kyūjitai	醬

Kanji

醤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 醬)

1. a kind of miso
2. any jam-like or paste-like food

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: ひしお (hishio, 醤)^{←ひしほ (fisifo, historical)}

Compounds

• 醤(しょう)油(ゆ) (shōyu)