倉

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See also: 仓
倉 U+5009, 倉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5009
← 倈
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倊 →

Translingual

Han character

倉 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日口 (OIAR) or 人一日口 (OMAR), four-corner 80607, composition ⿱亽⿸⿴尸一口(G) or ⿱亼⿸⿴尸一口(HTJKV))

  1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №183

Derived characters

Related characters

Further reading

Chinese Wikisource has digitized text of the Kangxi Dictionary entry for 倉:
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Wikisource


  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 169, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5009

Chinese

trad. 倉
simp. 仓*
alternative forms 仺 ancient
𠆳
𫝉
𡶍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倉
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Odd character Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script

j13026

Bronze inscriptions

b08054

b08055

b08056

Small seal script

s03774

s03775

Transcribed ancient scripts

L32910

L32911

L32912

L32913

L09963

L09964

L09965

L09966

L09967

L09968

L09969

L09970

L09971

L09972

L09973

L09974

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (倉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

In oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, pictogram (象形) : a granary, depicting its roof (亼), a door (戶), and a pit for storing grain (口). Alternatively an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 合 (“gather”) + 戶 (“door”) – a warehouse. The component 戶 corrupted into 𠁣 in Qin bamboo slips. This form was inherited in small seal script and was misinterpreted as cognate with the unrelated 食 in the Shuowen Jiezi.

Pronunciation

Note: chhng - vernacular, chhong - literary.
Note: cang1 - literary.
Rime
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
Baxter tshang
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倉 倉
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cāng cāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshang › ‹ tshang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁaŋ/ /*tsʰˁaŋ/
English tshang-kæng "oriole" granary

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 倉
Reading # 1/1
No. 1125
Phonetic
component 		倉
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		倉
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions

倉

  1. granary
  2. warehouse
  3. (trading) position
  4. (Cantonese) prison
  5. Alternative form of 艙／舱 (cāng)
  6. Alternative form of 滄／沧 (cāng)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (倉):
  • → Japanese: 倉(そう) (sō)
  • → Korean: 창(倉) (chang)
  • → Vietnamese: thương (倉)

References

Japanese

Kanji

倉

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

倉(くら) • (kura) 

Kanji in this term
倉
くら
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
  1. Alternative form of 蔵

Derived terms

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 倉 (MC tshang). Recorded as Middle Korean 차ᇰ (chang) (Yale: chang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

  • (granary; warehouse; etc.):
  • (in 창졸 (倉卒, changjol)):
    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
    • Phonetic hangul:
      • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

倉 (eumhun 곳집 창 (gotjip chang))

  1. Hanja form? of 창 (“granary”).
  2. Hanja form? of 창 (“warehouse; storage”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

倉: Hán Nôm readings: thương, thưng, thơng

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