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Original meaning: high place
Depicts a large room. Based on the original meaning "high place". The meaning later shifted to "esteem".
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | dzyangH | [d]aŋ-s | upwards |
| dzyangH | [d]aŋ-s | still, yet |
說文解字
《說文》：“尚，曾也，庶幾也。从八，向聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.81-82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)