賀

賀 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大口月山金 (KRBUC), four-corner 4680₆, composition ⿱加貝)

• 㵑 𪳺 𧝂 𧬂 𮜗 𠟒 𮆓

• 𛀞

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1207, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36725
• Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3636, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8CC0

Historical forms of the character 賀
Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaːls) : phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl) + semantic 貝 (“shellfish money”).

賀

1. to congratulate

   慶賀／庆贺  ―  qìnghè  ―  to celebrate; congratulate

   • 受天之祜，四方來賀。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     受天之祜，四方来贺。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shòu tiān zhī hù, sìfāng lái hè. [Pinyin]

     They will receive the blessing of Heaven.
     And from the four quarters [of the kingdom] will felicitations come to them.

2. a surname

   賀知章／贺知章  ―  Hè Zhīzhāng  ―  He Zhizhang / He Chih-chang (a Chinese poet, one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup)

• “賀”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. congratulate, greet, celebrate

• Go-on: が (ga, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu, 賀ぶ)

From Middle Chinese 賀 (MC haH).

• (Tokyo) が​ [gáꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠]

• (Tokyo) いわ​い [ìwáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
• IPA^(key): [iɰᵝa̠i]

賀(が) • (ga)  賀(いわい) • (iwai) 

1. congratulation

賀 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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賀: Hán Nôm readings: hạ

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