滄

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See also: 沧
滄 U+6EC4, 滄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EC4
← 滃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 滅 →

Translingual

Han character

滄 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水人戈口 (EOIR), four-corner 38167, composition ⿰氵倉)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 641, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18007
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1703, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6EC4

Chinese

trad. 滄
simp. 沧
alternative forms 𣳁
𣶟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 滄
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chhng - vernacular;
  • chhong - literary.
Rime
Character 滄
Reading # 1/2
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 滄
Reading # 1/2
No. 1127
Phonetic
component 		倉
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		倉
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions

滄

  1. (literary) blue; dark green (of water)
  2. (literary) vast (of water)
  3. (literary) cold; cool
    alt. forms: 凔／𰃷 (cāng)
  4. Alternative form of 蒼／苍 (“grey”)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

滄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: そう (sō)
  • Kan-on: そう (sō)
  • Kun: ひろい (hiroi)、さむい (samui)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

滄 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滄: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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