昌

Stroke order

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

• 倡, 唱, 猖, 淐, 娼, 琩, 椙, 晿, 焻, 錩, 誯, 𰎅, 𣣘, 焻, 𤏒, 菖, 䅛, 𬕑, 𬗡, 𪣧, 𪉨(𬸶), 𥓥, 裮, 𢃑, 𥚕, 閶(阊), 䮖, 猖, 䗉, 鯧(鲳), 𪂇, 𥫅

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 491, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13803
• Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1490, character 3
• Unihan data for U+660C

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). The mouth is a reference to being awaken at dawn through shouts or songs. During the Warring States Period, 口 developed into 曰.

昌 (OC khlaŋ ~ thaŋ) is possibly related to 陽 (OC *laŋ), in which case it'd go back to *khlaŋ, supported by Proto-Vietic *hlaŋᴮ; note the phonetic parallelism with 唱 (OC k-hlaŋh) (Schuessler, 2007).

See 陽／阳 (yáng) for further etymology.

昌

1. (literary, or in compounds) prosperous; flourishing
2. (～州) (historical) Chang Prefecture
3. a surname
4. ^† sunlight
5. ^† good; proper; right
6. ^† beautiful; lovely

• (prosperous):

• (antonym(s) of “prosperous”):

昌

1. (Southern Min, in compounds) facial expression

昌

1. ^† Alternative form of 倡 (“to initiate; to propose”)
2. ^† Alternative form of 唱 (chàng, “to chant; to recite”)

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. good
2. prosper

• 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, 昌ん)
• Nanori: まさ (masa)、あき (aki)、よし (yoshi)、まさし (masashi)、あきら (akira)、さかえ (sakae)、あつ (atsu)、すけ (suke)

• 昌(しょう)運(うん) (shōun)
• 昌(しょう)盛(せい) (shōsei)
• 盛(せい)昌(しょう) (seishō)
• 隆(りゅう)昌(しょう) (ryūshō)
• 繁(はん)昌(じょう) (hanjō)
• 昌(しょう)言(げん) (shōgen)

昌 (eumhun 창성할 창 (changseonghal chang))

1. prosperity, flourishing, thriving

昌: Hán Nôm readings: xương

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