昌 — Chinese character
昌
chāng
sunlight; good, proper; prosperous
- Pinyin
- chāng
- Radical
- 72 ⽇ (Sun)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 日 曰
- Formation
- ideographic — Speaking 曰 in the daytime 日
- Japanese
- 昌 as a kanji
Common words with 昌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昌盛 | chāng shèng | prosperous |
| 昌明 | chāng míng | flourishing; thriving |
| 繁荣昌盛 (繁榮昌盛) | fán róng chāng shèng | glorious and flourishing (idiom); thriving |
| 文昌鱼 (文昌魚) | wén chāng yú | lancelet (Branchiostoma lanceolatum), a primitive fish |
| 昌披 | chāng pī | variant of 猖披 (chāng pī) |
昌 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 4
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.