Chinese symbol for “award”
授予
shòu yǔ
to award; to confer
The closest CC-CEDICT match for award is 授予 (shòu yǔ), defined as: to award; to confer.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “award”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奖项 (獎項) | jiǎng xiàng | award; prize; 项 (xiàng) |
| 奖品 (獎品) | jiǎng pǐn | award; prize |
| 奖 (獎) | jiǎng | prize; award; bonus; reward; (bound form) to encourage; to commend; to praise |
| 嘉奖 (嘉獎) | jiā jiǎng | to award; commendation |
| 奖赏 (獎賞) | jiǎng shǎng | reward; prize; award |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 授予.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 教授 | jiāo shòu | to teach (a subject) |
| 授权 (授權) | shòu quán | to authorize |
| 传授 (傳授) | chuán shòu | to impart; to pass on; to teach |
| 授课 (授課) | shòu kè | to teach; to give lessons |
| 给予 (給予) | jǐ yǔ | (literary) to give; to accord; to render |
| 赋予 (賦予) | fù yǔ | to assign; to entrust (a task) |
| 予以 | yǔ yǐ | to give; to impose |
| 不予 | bù yǔ | (formal) not to (do sth) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “award”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.