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臧

臧

Translingual

Han character

臧 (radical 131 臣+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈一尸中中 (IMSLL), four-corner 23250, composition ⿵戕臣)

  1. good, right, generous
  2. a surname

Derived characters

Descendants

  • 庄 (Simplification used in 赃)

References

  • KangXi: page 999, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30083
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1451, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1410, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+81E7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 臧

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 *ʔsaːŋ) : phonetic 戕 ‎(OC *kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ) + semantic 臣.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 臧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 則郎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡saŋ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 臧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤaŋ/
English good

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 臧
Reading # 1/1
No. 10277
Phonetic
component		 爿
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 臧
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsaːŋ/
Notes 甲文從臣從戈，象以戈刺俘目爲奴（楊樹達說），後乃加爿聲爲轉註字

Definitions

臧

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Compounds

  • 不臧
  • 人謀不臧／人谋不臧
  • 臧否
  • 臧否人物
  • 臧獲／臧获
  • 臧穀亡羊／臧谷亡羊
  • 陟罰臧否／陟罚臧否

References

Japanese

Kanji

臧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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