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倉
倉
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Translingual
Han character
倉 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日口 (OIAR), four-corner 80607, composition ⿱亽⿸⿴尸一口 (G) or ⿱亼⿸⿴尸一口 (TJK))
Derived terms
傖, 創, 滄, 愴, 蒼, 搶, 鎗, 凔, 牄, 嗆, 熗, 瑲, 槍, 戧, 瘡, 鶬, 艙, 蹌
References
- KangXi: page 107, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 756
- Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 22
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 169, character 15
- Unihan data for U+5009
Chinese
| trad. | 倉 | |
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| simp. | 仓 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 倉
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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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 |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 食 (“food”) + 口 (“house”).
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
- Yale: chōng
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsong1
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng / chhong
- Tâi-lô: tshng / tshong
- Phofsit Daibuun: zhngf, zhofng
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³³/, /t͡sʰɔŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- Note: chhng - vernacular, chhong - literary.
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 倉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 唐 (101) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 七岡切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/t͡sʰaŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡sʰɑŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
cāng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
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| Character | 倉 | 倉 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
cāng | cāng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tshang › | ‹ tshang › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[s.r̥]ˤaŋ/ | /*tsʰˤaŋ/ |
| English | tshang-kæng "oriole" | granary |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 倉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1125 |
| Phonetic component |
倉 |
| Rime group |
陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
倉 |
| Old Chinese |
/*sʰaːŋ/ |
Definitions
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Compounds
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References
- “Entry #5711”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
Readings
Compounds
Noun
Derived terms
- 倉出し
- 倉入れ
Korean
Hanja
倉 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
倉 (thương)
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