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妝

妝

See also: 妆, 娤, and 粧

Translingual

Han character

妝 (radical 38 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女一女 (VMV), four-corner 24240, composition ⿰爿女)

References

  • KangXi: page 256, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6096
  • Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1033, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+599D

Chinese

trad. 妝/粧
simp. 妆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (爿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臧 *ʔsaːŋ
牂 *ʔsaːŋ
戕 *kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ
贓 *ʔsaːŋ
藏 *zaːŋ, *zaːŋs
奘 *zaːŋʔ, *zaːŋs
臟 *zaːŋs
將 *ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋs
漿 *ʔsaŋ
鱂 *ʔsaŋ
蔣 *ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋʔ
螿 *ʔsaŋ
槳 *ʔsaŋʔ
獎 *ʔsaŋʔ
醬 *ʔsaŋs
鏘 *sʰaŋ
蹡 *sʰaŋ, *ʔshaŋs
嶈 *sʰaŋ
斨 *sʰaŋ
爿 *braːn, *zaŋ
牆 *zaŋ
妝 *ʔsraŋ
莊 *ʔsraŋ
裝 *ʔsraŋ, *ʔsraŋs
壯 *ʔsraŋs
疒 *rnɯːɡ, *zraŋ
床 *zraŋ
牀 *zraŋ
狀 *zraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsraŋ) : phonetic 爿 ‎(OC *braːn, *zaŋ) + semantic 女 ‎(“female”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 妝
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 莊 (18)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 側羊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhuāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 妝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhuāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsrjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]raŋ/
English adorn (Shuōwén)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 妝
Reading # 1/1
No. 10304
Phonetic
component		 爿
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 莊
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsraŋ/

Definitions

妝

  1. (of a woman) to put on makeup; to adorn oneself
  2. woman's personal adornments, makeup and dress
  3. trousseau; dowry

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

妝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

妝 • ‎(jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妝 (trang)

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