奨励賞

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 奨励賞 (しょうれいしょう) is a noun for an encouragement award or honorable mention recognizing promise.
• Basic usage: It describes a submitted work receiving the award or recipients receiving judges' comments.
  • 初めて出した絵が奨励賞を受賞した。 — My first submitted painting received an honorable mention.
  • 奨励賞の受賞者には審査員から講評が届いた。 — Recipients of the encouragement award received comments from the judges.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Award and recipient
  • 奨励賞 is the name of the award, while 奨励賞の受賞者 identifies a person who received it.