昌
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Translingual
Han character
昌 (radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日日 (AA), four-corner 60600, composition ⿱日曰)
Derived terms
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
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
昌 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 昌 | ||||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
Pronunciation
Definitions
昌
- † sunlight
- † good; proper; right
- † beautiful; lovely
- prosperous; flourishing
- (~州) (historical) Chang Prefecture
- A surname.
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
昌
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
- good
- prosper
Readings
- Goon: 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)
Korean
Hanja
昌 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
昌 (xương)
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