觴

See also: 觞

觴 U+89F4, 觴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89F4 ← 觳 [U+89F3] CJK Unified Ideographs 觵 → [U+89F5]

Translingual

Han character

觴 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 弓月人日竹 (NBOAH), four-corner 2822₇, composition ⿰角𬀷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1144, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35157
• Dae Jaweon: page 1611, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3932, character 7
• Unihan data for U+89F4

Chinese

trad.		觴
simp.		觞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
湯	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪	*l̥ʰaːŋ
薚	*l̥ʰaːŋ
簜	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒	*l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩	*l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙	*l̥ʰaːŋs
啺	*l'aːŋ
碭	*l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸	*l'aːŋʔ
愓	*l'aːŋʔ
璗	*l'aːŋʔ
崵	*l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿	*l'aːŋs
暢	*l̥ʰaŋs
畼	*l̥ʰaŋs
腸	*l'aŋ
場	*l'aŋ
傷	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤	*hljaŋ
觴	*hljaŋ
慯	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓	*hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲	*hljaŋ
陽	*laŋ
楊	*laŋ
揚	*laŋ
瘍	*laŋ
煬	*laŋ, *laŋs
鍚	*laŋ
暘	*laŋ
颺	*laŋ, *laŋs
昜	*laŋ
輰	*laŋ
敭	*laŋ
鰑	*laŋ
諹	*laŋ, *laŋs
瑒	*laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉	*laŋ
餳	*ljaːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāng (shang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shang
    • Wade–Giles: shang¹
    • Yale: shāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shang
    • Palladius: шан (šan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: soeng¹
    • Yale: sēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: syang

Rime
Character	觴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式羊切
Baxter	syang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/ɕiaŋ/
Wang Li	/ɕĭaŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥aŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	觴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shāng
Middle Chinese	‹ syang ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥aŋ/
English	goblet
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	觴
Reading #	1/1
No.	14583
Phonetic component	昜
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	商
Old Chinese	/*hljaŋ/

Definitions

觴

1. (literary) wine cup; drinking vessel
2. (literary) to toast; to drink

Compounds

• 一觴一詠 / 一觞一咏
• 一詠一觴 / 一咏一觞
• 侑觴 / 侑觞
• 壽觴 / 寿觞
• 急觴 / 急觞
• 揮觴 / 挥觞
• 曲水流觴 / 曲水流觞
• 流觴 / 流觞
• 流觴曲水 / 流觞曲水 (liúshāngqūshuǐ)
• 濫觴 / 滥觞 (lànshāng)
• 瑤觴 / 瑶觞
• 稱觴 / 称觞
• 羽觴 / 羽觞
• 舉觴 / 举觞
• 舉觴稱慶 / 举觞称庆
• 萸觴 / 萸觞
• 蒲觴 / 蒲觞
• 觴詠 / 觞咏
• 觴豆 / 觞豆
• 觴酌 / 觞酌
• 走斝傳觴 / 走斝传觞
• 走斝飛觴 / 走斝飞觞
• 酒觴 / 酒觞
• 銜觴 / 衔觞
• 飛觴 / 飞觞
• 飛觴走斝 / 飞觞走斝
• 鶴觴 / 鹤觞

Japanese

Kanji

觴

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: さかずき (sakazuki)

References

• “^▲觴”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

觴 (eum 상 (sang))

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