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贈

zèng

give present

Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound.

Components
貝 meaning component

貝  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

曾 sound component

曾  Sound component

céng, zēng

  

already

Evolution

贈 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
贈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
贈 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
贈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

赠 (贈) 

zèng

give present; bestow, confer; to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)

Most common words with 贈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

捐赠

to donate

赠送

to present as a gift

赠

to repel

赠品

gift

赠与

to grant

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ˤəŋ-s

dzongH

zèng

give


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.4804% of movies

2090th most common character in movies

2123rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

赠

Unicode

U+8D08

Shuowen

“贈，玩好相送也。从貝，曾聲。”


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