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Translingual

Han character

(radical 57 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸一女 (NSMV), four-corner 11232, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 359, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9812
  • Dae Jaweon: page 675, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 997, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5F35

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*taŋ, *taŋs
*taŋ
*taŋ
*taŋ, *taŋʔ, *taŋs
*taŋʔ, *daŋ, *daŋs
*taŋs
*taŋs
*taŋs
*taŋs
倀 *tʰaŋ, *rtaːŋs
*tʰaŋ
*tʰaŋʔ
*tʰaŋs
*tʰaŋs
*daŋ
*daŋ, *daŋs
*rdaːŋ
*rdaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *taŋ, *taŋs) : semantic  (bow) + phonetic  (OC *taŋʔ, *daŋ, *daŋs) – to stretch with a bow.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ²¹/
/t͡sɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂaŋ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡saŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡saŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡saŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂã̠/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ¹³/
/t͡suə¹³/ ~村
Hohhot /t͡sɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sã⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sã⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕi³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕia³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂan³³/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡soŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃoŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sœŋ⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sœŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiɔŋ⁵⁵/
/tiũ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tuoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tiɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡siaŋ³³/
/tiõ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡siaŋ²³/
/ʔdio²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (9) (9)
Final () (105) (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨɐŋ/ /ʈɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiɐŋ/ /ʈiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiɑŋ/ /ȶiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈɨaŋ/ /ʈɨaŋH/
Li
Rong
/ȶiaŋ/ /ȶiaŋH/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭaŋ/ /ȶĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯aŋ/ /ȶi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhāng zhàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.traŋ/
English draw a bow

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1259 1270
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*taŋ/ /*taŋs/

Definitions

  1. to stretch; to open up; to spread
    /    zhāngkāi   to open up, to spread
    /    zhāngkǒu   to gape, to yawn
  2. to expand; to spread
    /    kuòzhāng   to expand, expansion
    /    shēngzhāng   to make public, to disclose
  3. nervous; tense
    /    jǐnzhāng   nervous
    /    zhāng   tension
  4. Classifier for things with a flat surface: sheet
    地圖 / 地图   zhāng dìtú   a map
    桌子 / 桌子   zhāng zhuōzǐ   a table
    / [Cantonese]   gei2zoeng1 dang3 [Jyutping]   several chairs
    / [Cantonese]   loeng5zoeng1 zi2 [Jyutping]   two sheets of paper
  5. Classifier for votes.
  6. A surname. Zhang, listed #24 of the Baijiaxing

Descendants

References

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(jang) (hangeul , revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Middle Vietnamese

Noun

(blang)

  1. page of a book

Descendants


Vietnamese

Han character

(trương, trang, chanh, choang, chương, giương, chăng, chướng, dăng)

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