尚
尚 — sang
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 尙.
- Korean reading
- 오히려 상
- Romanization
- sang
- English
- still, yet; even; fairly, rather
- Mandarin
- shàng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ショウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- なお
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,531 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 小 (42, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5C1A
Parts that make up 尚
- ⺌ 작을 소variant of 小 흩어진 작은 점 셋작은 것. 위에서 ⺌ 로 쓴다
- 冋 멀리 두른 경계 안‘경’ 계열의 소리
How 尚 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 尚 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 八, 向.
Japanese words with 尚
- 尚なお still; yet; more
- 時期尚早じきしょうそう premature
- 和尚おしょう priestly teacher; preceptor; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple)
- 高尚こうしょう high; noble; refined
- 尚更なおさら still more; even more; all the more
- 尚且つなおかつ besides; furthermore; on top of that
- 好尚こうしょう taste; fancy; fashion
- 尚早しょうそう prematurity
- 尚武しょうぶ militarism; warlike spirit
- 尚又なおまた besides; moreover; furthermore
- 尚古しょうこ respect for olden days
- 尚々なおなお all the more
Characters sharing the phonetic 尚
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “상”
Other hanja with radical 小
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