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樣

樣

See also: 样 and 様

Translingual

Traditional 樣
Shinjitai 様
Simplified 样

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 樣
simp. 样
alt. forms 様
𢵇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (羊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
样 *ʔslaːŋ, *laŋ
佯 *zlaŋ, *laŋ
詳 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
洋 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
翔 *ljaŋ
庠 *ljaŋ
祥 *ljaŋ
痒 *ljaŋ, *laŋʔ
姜 *klaŋ
羌 *kʰlaŋ
蜣 *kʰlaŋ
猐 *kʰlaŋ
唴 *kʰlaŋs
羊 *laŋ
徉 *laŋ
烊 *laŋ
蛘 *laŋ, *laŋʔ
眻 *laŋ, *laŋs
鴹 *laŋ
恙 *laŋs
羕 *laŋs
樣 *laŋs
漾 *laŋs

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

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 樣
Reading # 1/1
No. 14550
Phonetic
component		 羊
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 漾
Old
Chinese		 /*laŋs/
Notes 原誤手旁集韻不誤。見四民月令

Definitions

樣

  1. appearance; form; shape
    一樣 / 一样  ―  yīyàng  ―  same [lit. one appearance]
    模樣 / 模样  ―  móyàng  ―  appearance
  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
  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 [lit. this manner]
    怎樣 / 怎样  ―  zěnyàng  ―  how
  7. Classifier for kinds or types of things.
    有樣嘢叫 / 有样嘢叫 [Cantonese]  ―  jau5joeng6 je5 giu3 [Jyutping]  ―  there is a (type of) thing called
    三樣菜 / 三样菜  ―  sān yàng cài  ―  three different dishes
  8. (ACG, Internet, slang, from Japanese 様 (さま) ‎(sama)) -sama

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (樣):

Others (Pou, 1973):

  • Tai:
    • Lao: ຢ່າງ ‎(yāng, “kind, type; standard, pattern; way, method”)
    • Thai: อย่าง ‎(yàang, “variety; kind; manner; like, as; adverbial particle”), เยี่ยง ‎(yîiang, “like, as if; example, model”)
  • Mon-Khmer:
    • Khmer: យ៉ាង ‎(yang, “kind, type, way, particle for forming adverbial phrases”)
    • Vietnamese: dáng ‎(“gait, figure”), dường ‎(“to seem, to be like”)
  • Austronesian:
    • Malay: yang ‎(“(he, the one) who, (that) which”) (possibly)
  • Common Turkic *yaŋ
  • Mongolic:

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 樣 – see 橡.
(This character, 樣, is an ancient variant form of 橡.)

Japanese

Kanji

樣

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

樣 • ‎(yang, sang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 양, 상 (revised: yang, sang, McCune-Reischauer: yang, sang, Yale: yang, sang)
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Vietnamese

Han character

樣 (dạng, dáng, nhàng)

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