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Prize Award I 賞 ショウ ほ.める Reward Praise

Kanji
Onyomi ショウ
Kunyomi ほ.める
English prize, reward, praise
Examples 賞金(しょうきん): prize; monetary award
入賞(にゅうしょう): winning a prize or place (in a contest)
賞(しょう): prize; award
鑑賞(かんしょう): appreciation (e.g. of art); aesthetic sense
賞品(しょうひん): prize; trophy
懸賞(けんしょう): offering prizes; winning; reward
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade 4
Frequency 426
Components 尚: esteem; furthermore; still; yet
貝: shellfish
Number of Strokes 15
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 154
Radical Strokes 7
Radical Reading かい・かいへん・こがい
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword prize
Koohii Story 1 This is a bit silly.. or maybe not only a bit, but.. You know some foodstuffs (cereals come to mind) sometimes have prizes mixed in them? Well, in this case, the prize was a shell (money, remember) and you only notice in the outhouse... (see also secret (#904)).
Koohii Story 2 As a prize for being the 1,000,000th person to use the restaurant´s outhouse, I got all the clams I could eat.
RTK Index 796

Tags: jlpt.n2, grade4, kanjifreq251-500

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