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壯

壯

See also: 壮

Translingual

Han character

壯 (radical 33 士+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女一土 (VMG), four-corner 24210, composition ⿰爿士)

  1. big, large
  2. robust
  3. the Zhuang, an ethnic group living primarily in Guangxi, China

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 243, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5643
  • Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 428, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+58EF

Chinese

trad. 壯
simp. 壮

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 *ʔsraŋs) : phonetic 爿 ‎(OC *braːn, *zaŋ) + semantic 士.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 壯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 莊 (18)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 側亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhuàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 壯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhuàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsrjangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]<r>aŋ-s/
English robust

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 壯
Reading # 1/1
No. 10307
Phonetic
component		 爿
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 壯
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsraŋs/

Etymology 1

Adjective

壯

  1. strong; robust

Verb

壯

  1. to strengthen

Compounds

Etymology 2

First written as 獞 (note the "beast" radical, 犭 (quǎn)). Following the foundation of the PRC it was written as 僮 (with a "person" radical, 亻 (rén)). Due to the derogatory connotations of the previous characters, it was officially amended to 壯／壮 ("strong; robust") in 1965.

Noun

壯

  1. the Zhuang, an ethnic group living primarily in Guangxi, China

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

壯

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

壯 (tráng, trắng)

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