地藏

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See also: 地蔵

Chinese

		earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly	storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture; Zang; Tibet; to hide away; to conceal; to harbor; store; accumulate
trad. (地藏)		地	藏
simp. ^#(地藏)		地	藏
anagram		藏地

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Etymology

“Ksitigarbha”: Calque of Sanskrit क्षितिगर्भ (Kṣitigarbha, literally “earth womb”), from क्षिति (kṣiti, “earth”) + गर्भ (garbha, “womb”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dìzàng

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄗㄤˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dei⁶ zong⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dìzàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄗㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dìzàng
  - Wade–Giles: ti⁴-tsang⁴
  - Yale: dì-dzàng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihtzanq
  - Palladius: дицзан (diczan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sɑŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dei⁶ zong⁶
  - Yale: deih johng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dei⁶ dzong⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: déi⁶ zong⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tei̯²² t͡sɔːŋ²²/

Middle Chinese: dijH dzangH

Rime
Character	地	藏
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	徒四切	徂浪切
Baxter	dijH	dzangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/diɪ^H/	/d͡zɑŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/di^H/	/d͡zɑŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/djɪ^H/	/d͡zɑŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/di^H/	/d͡zaŋ^H/
Li Rong	/di^H/	/d͡zɑŋ^H/
Wang Li	/di^H/	/d͡zɑŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱi^H/	/d͡zʱɑŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dì	zàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dei⁶	zong⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ˤej-s m-tsʰˤaŋ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*l'els zaːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	地	藏
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dì	zàng
Middle Chinese	‹ dij^H ›	‹ dzang^H ›
Old Chinese	/*ˁej-s/	/*m-tsʰˁaŋ-s/
English	earth, ground	store, repository (n.)
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	地	藏
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	14808	10284
Phonetic component	也	爿
Rime group	歌	陽
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	地	藏
Old Chinese	/*l'els/	/*zaːŋs/

Noun

地藏

(Classical) cellar

Synonyms

地窖 (dìjiào)
地窨 (dìyìn)
地窨子 (dìyìnzi) (colloquial)
地陷 (tē-hām) (Hokkien)
地陷跤 (tē-hām-kha) (Xiamen Hokkien)
窖 (jiào)

Verb

地藏

(Classical) to bury (the dead) in the ground

Proper noun

地藏

(Buddhism) (～菩薩) Ksitigarbha bodhisattva
Synonym: 乞叉底蘗婆

Derived terms

地藏寺
地藏王
地藏王菩薩／地藏王菩萨 (Dìzàngwáng Púsà)
地藏經／地藏经 (Dìzàngjīng)
地藏菩薩／地藏菩萨 (Dìzàng Púsà)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (地藏):

→ Japanese: 地(じ)蔵(ぞう) (Jizō)

Further reading

Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “地藏” in 佛學大辭典 .

Japanese

Kanji in this term
地	藏
じ Grade: 2	ぞう Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 地藏 – see the following entry.

【地蔵じぞう】

(Buddhism) Short for 地蔵菩薩 (Jizō Bosatsu): Ksitigarbha, the bodhisattva who looks over children, pregnant women, travelers, and the underworld

(This term, 地藏, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

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