Chinese Character Wiki
尚

shàng

esteem

Original meaning: 

high place

Depicts a large room. Based on the original meaning "high place". The meaning later shifted to "esteem".

Components
八 distinguishing component

八  Distinguishing component

bā

  

eight

冂 sound,iconic component

冂  Sound Iconic component

jiōng

  

large room

Depicts a large room.

口 distinguishing component

口  Distinguishing component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

尚 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
尚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
尚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尚  

shàng

still, yet; even; fairly, rather; still; yet; to value; to esteem

尚  

Shàng

surname Shang

Most common words with 尚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

时尚

fashion

尚

still

尚未

not yet

高尚

noble

和尚

Buddhist monk

Component uses

Sound component in 24 characters (14 verified)

当 當 常 党 黨 掌 堂 賞 赏 躺 尝 嘗 敞 裳 倘 趟 棠 淌 绱 徜 惝 䠀 牚 耥

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

当

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

当

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]aŋ-s

dzyangH

shàng

upwards

*[d]aŋ-s

dzyangH

shàng

still, yet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.7158% of movies

1342nd most common character in movies

878th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5C1A

Shuowen

“尚，曾也，庶幾也。从八，向聲。”


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