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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿人戈口 (TOIR), four-corner 44607, composition))

  1. blue
  2. green

References

  • KangXi: page 1050, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31627
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3266, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+84BC

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sʰaːŋ
*sʰaːŋ
*sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ
*sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs
*sʰaːŋ, *zraːŋ
*sʰaːŋ
*sʰaːŋ
*sʰaŋ, *sʰraːŋ
*sʰaŋ, *sʰaŋʔ, *sʰraŋʔ
*sʰaŋ
*sʰaŋ
*sʰaŋ
*sʰaŋs
*sʰraŋ, *sʰraŋs
*sʰraŋ
*sʰraŋʔ, *sʰraŋs
*sʰraːŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (14) (14)
Final () (101) (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰaŋ/ /t͡sʰaŋX/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ /t͡sʰɑŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cāng cǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tsʰ]ˤaŋ/
English deep blue or green

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. 1126 1131
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰaːŋ/ /*sʰaːŋʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 上蒼上苍 (shàngcāng)
  • 天下蒼生天下苍生
  • 彼蒼彼苍
  • 擎蒼牽黃擎苍牵黄
  • 昊蒼昊苍
  • 暮色蒼茫暮色苍茫
  • 沒頭蒼蠅没头苍蝇
  • 滿心蒼涼满心苍凉
  • 無頭蒼蠅无头苍蝇
  • 白衣蒼狗白衣苍狗
  • 白雲蒼狗白云苍狗
  • 白髮蒼蒼白发苍苍
  • 白髮蒼顏白发苍颜
  • 皓首蒼顏皓首苍颜
  • 穹蒼穹苍 (qióngcāng)
  • 老蒼老苍
  • 老蒼頭老苍头
  • 莽蒼莽苍
  • 蒼勁苍劲
  • 蒼吾讓兄苍吾让兄
  • 蒼天苍天 (cāngtiān)
  • 蒼朮苍术 (cāngzhú)
  • 蒼梧苍梧
  • 蒼梧縣苍梧县
  • 蒼海苍海
  • 蒼涼苍凉
  • 蒼生苍生
  • 蒼白苍白 (cāngbái)
  • 蒼穹苍穹
  • 蒼筤苍筤
  • 蒼翠苍翠
  • 蒼老苍老
  • 蒼耳苍耳 (cāng'ěr)
  • 蒼苔苍苔
  • 蒼茫苍茫
  • 蒼莽苍莽
  • 蒼蒼苍苍
  • 蒼蠅苍蝇 (cāngying)
  • 蒼蠅拍子苍蝇拍子
  • 蒼蠅紙苍蝇纸
  • 蒼蠅見血苍蝇见血
  • 蒼霧苍雾
  • 蒼頭苍头
  • 蒼顏苍颜
  • 蒼髯苍髯
  • 蒼鬱苍郁
  • 蒼鳥苍鸟
  • 蒼鶻苍鹘
  • 蒼鷹苍鹰
  • 蒼鷺苍鹭 (cānglù)
  • 蒼黃苍黄
  • 蒼黃翻覆苍黄翻覆
  • 蒼龍苍龙
  • 霖雨蒼生霖雨苍生
  • 面色蒼白面色苍白
  • 飛蒼走黃飞苍走黄

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. blue
  2. green

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(chang) (hangeul , revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thương)

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