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

Traditional	贈
Simplified	赠
Japanese	贈
Korean	贈

Alternative forms

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

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

囎

References

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

Unihan data for U+FA65

Unihan data for U+FAC1

Chinese

trad.		贈
simp.		赠
alternative forms		𧸑

Glyph origin

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zèng (zeng⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zang⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): câing
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chn̄g / chēng / chān / cheng

(Teochew, Peng'im): zang⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zèng
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zèng
  - Wade–Giles: tsêng⁴
  - Yale: dzèng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzenq
  - Palladius: цзэн (czɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zang⁶
  - Yale: jahng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzang⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zeng⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ²²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: câing
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saiŋ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chn̄g
  - Tâi-lô: tsn̄g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zng
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡sŋ̍⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chēng
  - Tâi-lô: tsīng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zeng
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chān
  - Tâi-lô: tsān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zan
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡san²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡san⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡san³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng
  - Tâi-lô: tsing
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zefng
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

chn̄g/chēng - literary;
chān - vernacular;
cheng - vernacular (俗).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: zang⁷
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsāng
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saŋ¹¹/

Middle Chinese: dzongH

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	/d͡zəŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zəŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zəŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zəŋ^H/
Li Rong	/d͡zəŋ^H/
Wang Li	/d͡zəŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱəŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zèng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zang⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]ˤəŋ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*zɯːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	贈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zèng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzong^H ›
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

贈

to give as a present; to present with

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai	贈
Kyūjitai ^[1]	贈 `贈` or 贈+`︀`^?
	贈󠄁 贈+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	贈󠄃 贈+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

贈

(Jōyō kanji)

to present with

Readings

Compounds

References

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

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

贈: Hán Nôm readings: tặng

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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

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