奖项 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jiǎng prize, encouragement Simplified

Simplified form of 獎. Phonosemantic compound. 犬 represents the meaning and 將 represents the sound.

Components

将 Sound Remnant component

jiāng, jiàng will

大 Simplified component

dà, dài big

Shorthand for the 犬 component in the traditional character 獎.

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

xiàng neck Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound. Simplified form of 項.

Components

工 Sound component

gōng work

Change in sound

项 and 工 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
项 *[g]ˤroŋʔ
工 *kˤoŋ

页 Meaning component

yè page

Depicts a head.

Historical Pronunciations

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Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

jiǎng prize, encouragement Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 犬 represents the meaning and 將 represents the sound.

Components

將 Sound component

jiāng, jiàng take

犬 Meaning component

quǎn dog

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ʔsaŋʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“，嗾犬厲之也。从犬，將省聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

xiàng neck Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.

Components

工 Sound component

gōng work

Change in sound

項 and 工 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
項 *[g]ˤroŋʔ
工 *kˤoŋ

頁 Meaning component

yè (head), page

Depicts a head.

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	haewngX	[g]ˤroŋʔ	neck

說文解字

《說文》：“項，頭後也。从頁，工聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

奖 jiǎng prize, encouragement Simplified

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项 xiàng neck Simplified

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獎 jiǎng prize, encouragement Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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項 xiàng neck Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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jiǎng prize, encouragement Simplified

xiàng neck Simplified

jiǎng prize, encouragement Traditional

xiàng neck Traditional