奖
Meaning
- prize; award; bonus; reward
- (bound form) to encourage; to commend; to praise
- to award; to give as a reward
Example sentence
我中奖了。
I won the lottery.
The character 奖
奖 is a prize: 奖金 a bonus, 奖学金 a scholarship, 获奖 to win one, 抽奖 a prize draw. As a verb it commends — 奖励 is what a school or a company does.