Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 葬
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 茻 ‎(“grass”) + 死 ‎(“dead person”) – bury the dead 死 in the grass 茻. Top is now grass radical (艹), while bottom is simplified to 廾, hence graphically 艹 + 死 + 廾.

Han character

葬 (radical 140 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一心廿 (TMPT), four-corner 4444₁, composition ⿳艹死廾)

1. bury, inter

Derived characters

• 髒

References

• KangXi: page 1046, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3246, character 2
• Unihan data for U+846C

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 塟

Pronunciation

Noun

葬

1. burial

   火葬  ―  huǒzàng  ―  cremation (lit. fire burial)

Verb

葬

1. to bury; to inter

   埋葬  ―  máizàng  ―  to bury

   葬花詞 / 葬花词  ―  Zàng Huā Cí  ―  Poem of Burying Flowers (a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. funeral, bury

Readings

• Goon: そう (sō)
• Kan’on: そう (sō)
• Kun: ほうむる (houmuru)

Compounds

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 葬 ‎(tsang^H, “burial”).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

Noun

葬 ‎(hiragana そう, romaji sō, historical hiragana さう)

1. burial

References

• Jack Halpern's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

葬 (táng)

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