曾

When used in Korea or as a Japanese kyūjitai character, the upper component is 八 instead of 丷, which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

曾 (Kangxi radical 73, 曰+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金田日 (CWA), four-corner 8060₆, composition ⿱丷𭥴(GHT) or ⿱八𭥴(JKV))

• 僧 增 噌 嶒 潧 憎 繒 (缯) 璔 橧 贈 (赠) 熷 磳 矰 竲 蹭 譄 鏳 驓 鱛 鄫 甑 朆 罾 鬙 層 𬁭

• KangXi: page 503, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14299
• Dae Jaweon: page 877, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1521, character 3
• Unihan data for U+66FE

Historical forms of the character 曾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a cooker for steaming food. The derivative 甑 (OC *ʔsɯŋs) refers to the original word.

曾

1. already; ever; once (in the past); previously
2. Alternative form of 層／层 (céng).

• (already):

曾

1. (prefix) great-

   曾孫／曾孙  ―  zēngsūn  ―  great-grandson

2. (literary) unexpectedly

   • 誰謂河廣？曾不容刀。
     誰謂宋遠？曾不崇朝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     谁谓河广？曾不容刀。
     谁谓宋远？曾不崇朝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Shéi wèi Hé guǎng? Zēng bù róng dāo.
     Shéi wèi Sòng yuǎn? Zēng bù chóngzhāo. [Pinyin]

     Who says that the He is wide?
     It will not admit a little boat.
     Who says that Song is distant?
     It would not take a whole morning to reach it.

3. (literary) Alternative form of 增 (zēng, “to increase”).
4. a surname: Zeng

   曾國藩／曾国藩  ―  Zēng Guófān  ―  Zeng Guofan (Chinese statesman and military general of the Qing dynasty)

• → English: Tseng, Zeng, Chan, Tsang

• “曾”, 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–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 曽)

1. great-

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kan’yō-on: ぞ (zo); そ (so)
• Kun: かつて (katsute, 曾て); すなわち (sunawachi, 曾ち)
• Nanori: かつ (katsu); つね (tsune)

曾 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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曾: Hán Việt readings: tằng[1][2][3][4], tăng[1][5][4][6][3][7]
曾: Nôm readings: tâng[1][6], tơn[6], tưng[1][6], từng[5][6][7]

1. (archaic) chữ Hán form of tằng (“great-”).
2. Nôm form of từng (“once, ever, already, formerly”).

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