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蒼
蒼
See also: 苍
Translingual
Han character
蒼 (radical 140 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿人戈口 (TOIR), four-corner 44607, composition ⿱艹倉))
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. | 蒼 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 苍 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 蒼
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| Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (倉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 艙 | *sʰaːŋ |
| 倉 | *sʰaːŋ |
| 蒼 | *sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ |
| 滄 | *sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs |
| 傖 | *sʰaːŋ, *zraːŋ |
| 鶬 | *sʰaːŋ |
| 凔 | *sʰaːŋ |
| 槍 | *sʰaŋ, *sʰraːŋ |
| 搶 | *sʰaŋ, *sʰaŋʔ, *sʰraŋʔ |
| 蹌 | *sʰaŋ |
| 瑲 | *sʰaŋ |
| 牄 | *sʰaŋ |
| 嗆 | *sʰaŋs |
| 創 | *sʰraŋ, *sʰraŋs |
| 瘡 | *sʰraŋ |
| 愴 | *sʰraŋʔ, *sʰraŋs |
| 鎗 | *sʰraːŋ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄘㄤ
- Wade-Giles: ts'ang1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsang
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: cong1, cong2
- Yale: chōng, chóng
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsong1, tsong2
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰɔːŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhang
- Tâi-lô: tshang
- Phofsit Daibuun: zhafng
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 蒼 | 蒼 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 唐 (101) | 唐 (101) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 七岡切 | 麁朗切 |
| 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 | 蒼 |
| 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; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 蒼 | 蒼 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 1126 | 1131 |
| Phonetic component |
倉 | 倉 |
| Rime group |
陽 | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
倉 | 蒼 |
| Old Chinese |
/*sʰaːŋ/ | /*sʰaːŋʔ/ |
Definitions
蒼
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Compounds
Korean
Hanja
蒼 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
蒼 (thương)
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