| Chinese Text Project |
| 賞 U+8CDE |  Seal script |  Jinwen |  Jianbo | 赏 Simplified character |
| Radical: | 貝+ 8 strokes = 15 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.312#18 Kangxi: p.1209#19 Cihai: p.1276r4c01 GSR: 725.n Hanyu: v6,p3647#07 |
| Composition: | Top: 𫩠, bottom: 貝. Component of: 償 𢤗 𫲐 𭣁 𤪸 𦘆 贘 𧭢 鑜 𮩗 |
| Mandarin: | shǎng ㄕㄤˇ |
| Cantonese: | soeng2 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *shiɑ̌ng |
| Shuowen: | 《貝部》賞：賜有功也。从貝尚聲。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·上聲·養·賞》賞：賜也，又吳姓有賞氏。書兩切，五。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·貝部·八》賞：《廣韻》書兩切《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》始兩切，𠀤音曏。《說文》賜有功也。《書·大禹謨》賞延于世。又《仲虺之誥》功懋懋賞。《周禮·天官·大宰》三載，則計羣吏之治而誅賞之。又《戰國策》故賞韓王，以近河外。《註》賞，猶勸也。又《類篇》一曰玩也，嘉也。《陶潛·移居詩》奇文共欣賞。又凡貽與者亦曰賞。《柳宗元·送薛存義序》于其往也，賞以酒肉，重之以辭。又姓。《姓纂》晉人賞慶，註《周易》。 |
| Fanqie: | 書兩 (《廣韻·上聲·養·賞》) |
| Unihan definition: | reward, grant, bestow; appreciate |
Example usage
| 《論語·顏淵》: | 孔子對曰：「苟子之不欲，雖賞之不竊。」 |
| Confucius said, "If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal." | |
| 《揚子法言》: | 忠以衛上，君念其賞。 |
| If you show loyalty by protecting those above, the ruler's thoughts will be on rewards. | |
| 《墨子·經上》: | 賞，上報下之功也。 |
| Shang (reward) is requital from above for achievement below. | |
| 《莊子·胠篋》: | 故逐於大盜，揭諸侯，竊仁義並斗斛、權衡、符璽之利者，雖有軒冕之賞弗能勸，斧鉞之威弗能禁。 |
| Thus they hasten to become great robbers, carry off princedoms, and steal benevolence and righteousness, with all the gains springing from the use of pecks and bushels, weights and steelyards, tallies and seals: even the rewards of carriages and coronets have no power to influence (to a different course), and the terrors of the axe have no power to restrain in such cases. | |
| 《商君書·去強》: | 重罰輕賞，則上愛民，民死上。 |
| If penalties are made heavy and rewards light, the ruler loves his people and they will die for him. | |
| 《孫子兵法·始計》: | 曰：主孰有道，將孰有能，天地孰得，法令孰行，兵眾孰強，士卒孰練，賞罰孰明，吾以此知勝負矣。 |
| In this wise: (1) Which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the Moral law? (2) Which of the two generals has most ability? (3) With whom lie the advantages derived from Heaven and Earth? (4) On which side is discipline most rigorously enforced? (5) Which army is stronger? (6) On which side are officers and men more highly trained? (7) In which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment? By means of these seven considerations I can forecast victory or defeat. | |
| 《史記·夏本紀》: | 用命，賞于祖。 |
| You who obey my orders shall be rewarded in the ancestral temple. | |
| 《禮記·月令》: | 還反，賞公卿、諸侯、大夫於朝。 |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 慶賞刑罰，通類而後應。 |
| 《說苑·君道》: | 故不賞而民勸，不罰而民治。 |
| 《春秋繁露·盟會要》: | 公心以是非，賞善誅惡而王澤洽，始於除患，正一而萬物備。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷二》: | 治心術則不妄喜怒，不妄喜怒則賞罰不阿。 |
| 《大戴禮記·主言》: | 孔子曰：「至禮不讓而天下治，至賞不費而天下之士說，至樂無聲而天下之民和。」 |
| 《白虎通德論》: | 諸侯比王者為陰，南面賞罰為陽，法雷也。 |
| 《新書·脩政語上》: | 故不賞而民勸，不罰而民治，先恕而後行，是以德音遠也。 |
| 《新序·善謀下》: | 戰勝而不得其賞，拔城而不得其封。 |
| 《中論·法象》: | 無爵祿之賞，而萬民懷之。 |
| 《孔子家語·王言解》: | 至賞不費而天下士說。 |
| 《潛夫論·務本》: | 故仁以義費於彼者，天賞之於此 |
| 《論衡·幸偶》: | 晉文脩文德，徐偃行仁義，文公以賞賜，偃王以破滅。 |
| 《風俗通義·五帝》: | 謹按：《易》、《尚書大傳》：「天立五帝以為相，四時施生，法度明察，春夏慶賞，秋冬刑罰，帝者任德設刑，以則象之。」 |
| 《孔叢子·記問》: | 其君以譽為賞，以毀為罰，賢者不居焉。 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 興農桑以養其生，審好惡以正其俗，宣文教以章其化，立武備以秉其威，明賞罰以統其法。 |
| 《忠經·武備章》: | 賞以勸之。 |
| 《素書·原始章》: | 義者人之所宜，賞善罰惡，以立功立事。 |
| 《新語·道基》: | 於是皋陶乃立獄制罪，懸賞設罰，異是非，明好惡，檢奸邪，消佚亂。 |
| 《獨斷·卷上》: | 《尚書》曰：「用命賞于祖，不用命戮于社。」 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 《尚書》曰：「用命賞于祖，不用命戮于社。」 |
| 《列子·黃帝》: | 遂與商丘開俱乘高臺，於眾中漫言曰：「有能自投下者賞百金。」 |
| 《鶡冠子·夜行》: | 五行業也，五政道也，五音調也，五聲故也，五味事也，賞罰約也。 |
| 《文子·精誠》: | 故賞善罰暴者，正令也。 |
| 《列仙傳·稷丘君》: | 武帝時，以道術受賞賜。 |
| 《鬻子》: | 無有無罪而見誅，無有有功而不賞。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 欲賞善，恐偽善生。 |
| 《韓非子·初見秦》: | 言賞則不與，言罰則不行，賞罰不信，故士民不死也。 |
| 《慎子·威德》: | 明君動事分功必由慧，定賞分財必由法，行德制中必由禮。 |
| 《管子·輕重己》: | 犧牲以彘，發號出令曰：「罰而勿賞，奪而勿予，罪獄誅而勿生，終歲之罪，毋有所赦，作衍牛馬之實在野者王」，天子之秋計也。 |
| 《公孫龍子·跡府》: | 有功則賞之，無功則亦賞之，而怨人之不理也，可乎？ |
| 《吳子·料敵》: | 秦性強，其地險，其政嚴，其賞罰信，其人不讓，皆有鬭心，故散而自戰。 |
| 《六韜·盈虛》: | 所憎者，有功必賞。 |
| 《司馬法·天子之義》: | 從命為士上賞，犯命為士上戮，故勇力不相犯。 |
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