賀

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See also: 贺
賀 U+8CC0, 賀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CC0
← 貿
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賁 →

Translingual

賀 in several fonts

Han character

賀 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大口月山金 (KRBUC), four-corner 46806, composition ⿱加貝)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1207, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36725
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3636, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8CC0

Chinese

trad. 賀
simp. 贺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賀
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (加) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妿 *kaːl, *qaːl
賀 *ɡaːls
迦 *ka, *kal, *kraːl
茄 *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
伽 *ɡa, *ɡal
枷 *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
嘉 *kraːl
加 *kraːl
笳 *kraːl
痂 *kraːl
袈 *kraːl
跏 *kraːl
珈 *kraːl
鴐 *kraːl
架 *kraːls
駕 *kraːls
瘸 *ɡʷal

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaːls) : phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl) + semantic 貝 (“shellfish money”).

Pronunciation

Note: ho3 - variant (rare).
Rime
Character 賀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡箇切
Baxter haH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦɑH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦɑH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦaH/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɑH/
Wang
Li 		/ɣɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		hè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ho6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 賀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		hè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ haH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-kˁaj-s/
English congratulate

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 賀
Reading # 1/1
No. 5862
Phonetic
component 		加
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		賀
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡaːls/

Definitions

賀

  1. to congratulate
    慶賀／庆贺  ―  qìnghè  ―  to celebrate; congratulate
  2. a surname
    賀知章／贺知章  ―  Hè Zhīzhāng  ―  He Zhizhang / He Chih-chang (a Chinese poet, one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

賀

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. congratulate, greet, celebrate

Readings

  • Go-on: が (ga, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: か (ka)
  • Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu, 賀ぶ)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
賀
が
Grade: 4
goon

From Middle Chinese 賀 (MC haH).

Pronunciation

Noun

賀(が) • (ga)  賀(いわい) • (iwai) 

  1. congratulation

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

賀 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賀: Hán Nôm readings: hạ

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