臧

臧 (Kangxi radical 131, 臣+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈一尸中中 (IMSLL), four-corner 2325₀, composition ⿵戕臣)

• 㵴, 贓, 𰷭, 藏, 𡁧, 𡒤, 𡽴, 𮍄, 𡾻, 𩯩, 𡒉, 𡒥, 𢨑

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 999, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30083
• Dae Jaweon: page 1451, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1410, character 11
• Unihan data for U+81E7

Historical forms of the character 臧
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 臣 (“eye”) + 戈 (“spear;weapon”) – "slave; prisoner of war" (slaves in ancient China were blinded, hence the 臣 component. Hence, the original version is 𦣣.

The phonetic component 爿 (OC *zaŋ), absent in the oracle-bone script, was added at a later stage (see Yang, 1965, and references therein), leading Shuowen to interpret the character as a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsaːŋ) : phonetic 戕 (OC *kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ) + semantic 臣.

Perhaps borrowed phonetically to mean "generous".

See also 童, 民, and 盲.

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བཟང (bzang, “good; fine”) (Coblin, 1986).

臧

1. (literary) good; right; generous

   • 彼月而食，則維其常。此日而食，于何不臧？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     彼月而食，则维其常。此日而食，于何不臧？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bǐ yuè ér shí, zé wéi qí cháng. Cǐ rì ér shí, yú hé bù zāng?

     For the moon to be eclipsed,
     Is but an ordinary matter.
     Now that the sun has been eclipsed,
     How bad it is!

2. (literary) to praise; to commend
3. a surname

   臧克家  ―  Zāng Kèjiā  ―  Zang Kejia (Chinese poet)

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臧

1. ^† (derogatory) slave; enslaved captive

   • 且夫臧獲婢妾，猶能引決，況僕之不得已乎？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     且夫臧获婢妾，犹能引决，况仆之不得已乎？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1st century BCE, Sima Qian, Letter to Ren An. Translated by Burton Watson.

     Qiěfú zānghuò bìqiè, yóu néng yǐnjué, kuàng pú zhī bùdéyǐ hū?

     If even the lowest slave and scullion maid can bear to commit suicide, why shouldn't one like myself be able to do what has to be done?

2. ^† Alternative form of 贓 / 赃 (zāng, “booty; loot; stolen goods”)

臧

1. Alternative form of 藏 (“to hide; to store”)

臧

1. ^† Alternative form of 藏 (zàng, “storing pace; depository”)
2. ^† Alternative form of 臟 / 脏 (zàng, “internal organs, viscera”)

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): ぞう (zō)
• Kun: よい (yoi)、あつい (atsui)、おさめる (osameru)

臧 (eum 장 (jang))

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臧: Hán Nôm readings: tang, tàng

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