祥

祥 (祥 X7965) is Unicode character number 31077, KanjiLiberal.

祥 can be pronounced しょう, "Siou", and refer to celebration, happiness .

祥 is used also as part of female given name.

祥 is easy to confuse with KanjiConfudal 祥 XFA1A.

Encoding

The Utf8 encoding of 祥 and related characters 祥, ネ, 羊
can be revealed with PHP program du.t; command

php du.t 祥祥ネ羊

gives the following output:

祥祥ネ羊
The array has 12 bytes; here is its splitting:
e7 a5 a5 ef a8 9a e3 83 8d e7 be 8a
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "祥"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "祥"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "ネ"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "羊"
}

Unicode character number 31077 id est, X7965
Picture: 祥 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE7 XA5 XA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
231 165 165 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 64026 id est, XFA1A
Picture: 祥 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XEF XA8 X9A in the hexadecimal representation and
239 168 154 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 12493 id est, X30CD
Picture: ネ ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE3 X83 X8D in the hexadecimal representation and
227 131 141 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 32650 id est, X7F8A
Picture: 羊 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE7 XBE X8A in the hexadecimal representation and
231 190 138 in the decimal representation

Warning

Some terminals do not support well the Unicode characters and do not allow to type (nor copypast) character 祥 (XFA1A). Then, the similar output can be generated with command

php ud.t 7965 FA1A 30CD 7F8A

In order to execute it, files ud.t and uni.t should be loaded.

Graphic

祥 appears as combination of two characters:

ネ (ネ X30CD, katakana ne),

and

羊 (羊 X7F8A) (ひつじ, hitsuji, sheep)

Semantics

祥 can be used in the following meanings:

auspicious, happiness, blessedness, good omen, good fortune

Examples

Siyouko versus Sachiko

祥子 can be pronounced as しょうこ, Siyouko and used as female name.
At the English transliteration, this name is written as "Shoko", predetermining the strong Western accent, used in Japan to identify the foreigners.

祥子 can be pronounced also as as さちこ, Sachiko and also used as female name.

There is no simple way to guess, should 祥子 be pronounced as しょうこ or as さちこ. To avoid confusion, kanjis 祥子 should be supplied with the phonetic specification in Romanji or Hiragana.

Jisho

https://jisho.org/search/祥%20%23kanji

祥 10 strokes

Radical: sign 示 (礻)

Parts: 并 礼 王 羊

Variants: auspicious, happiness, blessedness, good omen, good fortune

Kun: さいわ.い、 きざ.し、 よ.い、 つまび.らか

On: ショウ

Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high JLPT level N1 1273 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

祥 【ショウ】 omen (usu. good), (auspicious) sign, first two anniversaries of a person's death

祥雲 【ショウウン】 auspicious cloud

瑞祥 【ズイショウ】 auspicious sign, good omen

清祥 【セイショウ】 happiness and health

Nihongomaster

At site Nihongomaster, character 祥 appears as kanji number 1361, https://www.nihongomaster.com/dictionary/kanji/1361 . The new numeration may cause sonfusion. The following description and examples are suggested:

祥

10 Strokes Radicals: 王 并 羊 JLPT Level 1

Definition of 祥 auspicious happiness blessedness good omen good fortune

Readings

On'Yomi (音読み) ショウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み) さいわい きざし よい つまびらか

Popular Words With This Kanji

不祥事, ふしょうじ scandal, deplorable event

発祥, はっしょう origin, appearance of auspicious omen

発祥地, はっしょうち cradle (of civilisation, civilization, etc.), birthplace

吉祥天, きっしょうてん, きちじょうてん Sri-mahadevi (consort of Vaisravana in Buddhism, based on Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu in Hinduism)

不祥, ふしょう disgraceful, inauspicious, ill-omened, ominous, scandalous

祥月命日, しょうつきめいにち anniversary of a person's death

瑞祥, ずいしょう auspicious sign, good omen

休祥, きゅうしょう good omen

祥雲, しょううん auspicious cloud

健祥, けんしょう spirit, pep, energy

Confusion

Character 祥 X7965, KanjiLiberal is reported to confuse with
character 祥 XFA1A , interpreted as KanjiConfudal.

No special article entitled 祥 can be created at the Mediawiki. The attempt to access 祥 redirects here.

At the confusion with names of kanjis 祥 and 祥, the articles about these characters can entitled and accessed by their hexadecimal numbers X7965 and XFA1A.

Kanji 祥 (祥 XFA1A) has similar pronunciation and similar meaning, almost the same as (祥 X7965) , although a little bit different drawing of the left hand side part.

(祥 XFA1A) can be pronounced also as さいわい , "showai"

References

Keywords

du.t, Confusion, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, Shoko, Unicode, ud.t, uni.t, X30CD (ネ), X7965 (祥), X7F8A (羊), XFA1A (祥)