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Kanji Detail for 賞 - "prize, award, praise"

賞

  • Meaning

    賞 means "prize, award, praise."

    1. Prize - A reward for achievement.

    2. Award - Recognition of merit.

    3. Praise - To commend; to admire.

  • Words using 賞

    • 受賞 じゅしょう Listen winning a prize; receiving an award; being awarded
    • 賞金 しょうきん Listen prize money; monetary award; reward
    • 入賞 にゅうしょう Listen winning a prize; placing (high; in a contest)
    • 大賞 たいしょう Listen big prize; first prize
    • 賞状 しょうじょう Listen certificate of merit; testimonial
    • 副賞 ふくしょう Listen supplementary prize; additional prize; auxiliary prize
    • 鑑賞 かんしょう Listen appreciation (of art, music, poetry, etc.)
    • 賞品 しょうひん Listen prize; trophy

  • Four-character idioms with 賞

    • 論功行賞 ろんこうこうしょう Listen conferral of honors (honours), according to merits
    • 信賞必罰 しんしょうひつばつ Listen rewards and punishments; rewarding good conduct and punishing evildoing

  • Tattoo check: 賞

    • Verified meaning: prize, award, praise
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read すすむ, まさる)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 賞

    Given names 賞(すすむ)Listen 賞(まさる)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    prize; reward; praise

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    reward, grant, bestow; appreciate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down; a reward (bestowed by a superior); to appreciate (beauty)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To reward for merit. Such as in Qing times, 賞戴花翎 (rewarded with peacock feathers), 賞穿黃馬褂 (rewarded with yellow riding jacket). | To praise as beautiful is called 賞. Such as 賞識 (appreciate). Admiring and handling something beautiful is also called 賞. Tao Qian's poem says "Fine writings are enjoyed together." Today people say 賞雨 (enjoy the rain), 賞雪 (enjoy the snow), 賞花 (enjoy flowers), 賞月 (enjoy the moon), etc. All based on this.

  • Onyomi

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    shoh(ショウ) ショウ

  • Kunyomi

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    ho.meru(ほ-める) ほ-める

  • Strokes

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    15 strokes

  • Radical

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    貝 (kai・kaihen・kogai)

  • Related Keywords

    prize award praise bestow gift reward accolade achievement admire commend distinction honor medal merit recognition trophy

Sentences including 賞

  • He won the prize last week.

  • He is such a teacher as we all admire.

  • The teacher gave john a prize.

  • The prize won't be given to her.

  • They admire each other.

  • The prize went to him.

  • He worked hard in order to get the prize.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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