chāng
prosperous
Original meaning:
call loudly
Originally composed of 口 (mouth) and 日 (sun), representing a call in the morning to wake people up at sunrise to start working. Based on the original meaning "call loudly", now written as 唱. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 昌
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
prosperous | ||
also Nanchang county | ||
Wuchang district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市[Wǔhànshì], Hubei | ||
Nanchang prefecture level city and capital of Jiangxi province 江西省 in southeast China | ||
Lee Chang-ho (1975-), South Korean Go player |
Component uses
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 0.9130% of movies
2793rd most common character in movies
1606th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+660C |
Shuowen | “昌,美言也。从日,从曰。一曰日光也。《詩》曰:‘東方昌矣。’,籀文昌。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.536
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