昌

昌	U+660C, 昌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-660C

← 昋
[U+660B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

昍 →
[U+660D]

Translingual

Han character

昌 (radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日日 (AA), four-corner 6060₀, composition ⿱日曰)

Derived characters

倡唱猖淐娼琩椙晿焻錩

References

KangXi: page 491, character 10

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13803

Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 16

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1490, character 3

Unihan data for U+660C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		昌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昌
Shang	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Shizhoupian script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (昌) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
昌	*tʰjaŋ
倡	tʰjaŋ, tʰjaŋs
猖	*tʰjaŋ
菖	*tʰjaŋ
閶	*tʰjaŋ
鯧	*tʰjaŋ
裮	*tʰjaŋ
琩	*tʰjaŋ
唱	*tʰjaŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). During the Warring States Period, 口 developed into 曰.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ

(Chengdu, SP): cang¹
Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhiong / chhiang / chhiuⁿ / chhioⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): ciang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: chāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
  - Wade–Giles: ch'ang¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: cang¹
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: cang
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: coeng¹
  - Yale: chēung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœ̽ːŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiong
  - Tâi-lô: tshiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiofng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiang
  - Tâi-lô: tshiang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiafng
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiuⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tshiunn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chviw
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiũ³³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiũ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhioⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tshionn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chvioy
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔ̃⁴⁴/

Note:

chhiong/chhiang - literary;
chhiuⁿ/chhioⁿ - vernacular.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ciang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiang
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/▼

Rime
Character	昌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尺良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chāng

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*tʰjaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	昌
Reading #	1/1
No.	1249
Phonetic component	昌
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	昌
Old Chinese	/*tʰjaŋ/

Definitions

昌

Compounds

不昌
五世其昌
光昌
南昌 (Nánchāng)
國運昌隆／国运昌隆
大昌 (Dàchāng)
太昌
孝昌 (Xiàochāng)
宜昌 (Yíchāng)
寖明寖昌
平昌 (Píngchāng)
文昌星
文昌魚／文昌鱼 (wénchāngyú)
昌光

昌化石
昌大
昌容
昌平 (Chāngpíng)
昌意
昌明
昌盍
昌盛 (chāngshèng)
昌言
昌辭／昌辞
昌達／昌达 (Chāngdá)
昌隆
昌黎 (Chānglí)

晉昌／晋昌 (Jìnchāng)
東昌紙／东昌纸
樂昌破鏡／乐昌破镜
武昌 (Wǔchāng)
武昌剩竹
武昌起義／武昌起义
永昌 (yǒngchāng)
泰昌 (Tàichāng)
繁榮昌盛／繁荣昌盛
蕃昌 (fánchāng)
金昌 (Jīnchāng)
阿昌族 (Āchāngzú)
隆昌

Japanese

Kanji

昌

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

good
prosper

Readings

Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
Kun: さかん (sakan)
Nanori: まさ (masa); あき (aki); よし (yoshi)

Korean

Hanja

昌 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昌 (xương)

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