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Chinese
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surname; good; lucky
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clogged; evil; to negate clogged; evil; to negate; to deny; not
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simp. and trad.
(臧否)
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臧
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否
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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臧
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zāng
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsang ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁaŋ/
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| English
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good
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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臧
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否
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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| No.
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10277
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1022
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Phonetic
component
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爿
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不
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Rime
group
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陽
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之
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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臧
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否
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʔsaːŋ/
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/*brɯʔ/
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| Notes
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甲文從臣從戈，
象以戈刺俘目爲奴（楊樹達說），後乃加爿聲爲轉註字
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Noun
臧否
- (literary) good and bad; good or bad
Synonyms
- 善惡／善恶 (shàn'è)
- 好壞／好坏 (hǎohuài)
- 好歹 (hǎodǎi)
- 好䆀 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 好賴／好赖 (hǎolài)
- 是非 (shìfēi)
- 長短／长短 (chángduǎn)
- 黑白 (hēibái) (figurative)
Verb
臧否
- (literary) to judge (people); to appraise
Synonyms
Derived terms