樣

Translingual

Han character

樣 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿土水 (DTGE), four-corner 4893₂, composition ⿰木羕)

Derived characters

• 𧁒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 551, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15457
• Dae Jaweon: page 939, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1284, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6A23

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laŋs) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 羕 (OC *laŋs).

Etymology 1

“appearance; etc.”

Commonly assumed to be related to 像 (OC *ljaŋʔ, “to resemble, image”) by Chinese commentators.

“(ACG slang) -sama”

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 様(さま) (sama).

Pronunciation

Definitions

樣

1. appearance; form; shape

   一樣／一样  ―  yīyàng  ―  same

   模樣／模样  ―  móyàng  ―  appearance

   佢咩樣㗎？／佢咩样㗎？ [Cantonese]  ―  keoi⁵ me¹ joeng^6-2 gaa³?   ―  What does he look like?

2. look; expression; air
3. type; kind; sort; variety; class; category

   各式各樣／各式各样  ―  gèshìgèyàng  ―  (of) all kinds and sorts

   更加歡喜花樣個夢，抱一抱夜來香，吻一吻夜來香。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   更加欢喜花样个梦，抱一抱夜来香，吻一吻夜来香。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   From: 2020, 夜来香（沪语）

   ⁵ken-ka ¹huoe-shi ¹ho-yan-gheq-men ⁶bau-iq-bau ⁶ya-le-shian ⁶ven-iq-ven ⁶ya-le-shian [Wugniu]

   I like more the flower-like dreams, I hug the jasmine, I kiss the jasmine.

4. sample; specimen; example

   樣品／样品  ―  yàngpǐn  ―  sample; specimen

   榜樣／榜样  ―  bǎngyàng  ―  example; model

5. (printing) proof
6. manner; style; way; fashion

   這樣／这样  ―  zhèyàng  ―  such; like this

   怎樣／怎样  ―  zěnyàng  ―  how

7. Classifier for kinds or types of things.

   有樣嘢叫／有样嘢叫 [Cantonese]  ―  jau⁵ joeng⁶ je⁵ giu³   ―  there is a (type of) thing called

   三樣菜／三样菜  ―  sān yàng cài  ―  three different dishes

8. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (rare) An honorific.
   • 2010 May 18, 倪匡 [Ni Kuang], “配額用精光，租界期自滿”, in Apple Daily‎, archived from the original on 21 June 2021, 倪租界:

     這些日子來，在此設租界，大量蔡樣讀者，想必早已怨聲載道，在此謝過。要感謝蔡樣，感謝應該感謝的所有人。

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

9. (ACG, Internet, slang) -sama

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Others (Pou, 1973):

• → Khmer: យ៉ាង (yaang, “kind, type, way, particle for forming adverbial phrases”)
• → Lao: ຢ່າງ (yāng, “kind, type; standard, pattern; way, method”)
• → Lü: ᦊᦱᧂᧈ (ẏaang¹)
• →? Malay: yang (“(he, the one) who, (that) which”)
• → Mongolian: зан (zan)
• → Northern Thai: ᩀ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨦ
• → Thai: อย่าง (yàang, “variety; kind; manner; like, as; adverbial particle”), เยี่ยง (yîiang, “like, as if; example, model”)
• → Proto-Turkic: *yaŋ
  • → Old Uyghur: yaŋ
  • → Karakhanid: يَانگ
• → Vietnamese: dáng (“gait, figure”), dường (“to seem, to be like”)

Etymology 2

References

• “樣”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 様)

1. Kyūjitai form of 様: certain form or way; condition, state; design, pattern; indicates humbleness or politeness

Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kan-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kun: さま (sama, 樣)

As variant kanji of 橡:

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: くぬぎ (kunugi, 樣); とち (tochi, 樣)

Usage notes

When written as the polite personal suffix, this kanji form is the most honorific form, and is called 永様 (ei-sama, literally “永-form”) to distinguish from 次様 (tsugi-zama, for 檨, literally “次-form”), 美様 (bi-zama, for 𣖙, literally “美-form”), and 平様 (hira-zama, for shinjitai form 様, literally “common form”).

Definitions

Korean

Etymology 1

Hanja

樣 (eumhun 모양 양 (moyang yang))

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Compounds

• 모양 (模樣, moyang)

Etymology 2

Hanja

樣 (eumhun 상수리나무 상 (sangsurinamu sang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

樣: Hán Nôm readings: dạng, dáng, nhàng

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