蒼

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See also: 苍
蒼 U+84BC, 蒼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84BC
← 蒻
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蒽 →

Translingual

Han character

蒼 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿人戈口 (TOIR), four-corner 44607, composition ⿱艹倉)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31627
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3266, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+84BC

Chinese

trad. 蒼
simp. 苍
alternative forms 滄／沧
𦭆
𡶍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蒼
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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, *sʰaːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-riŋ ~ s-r(j)aŋ (“to live; to be alive; to give birth; raw; green”) (STEDT). May be an old dialect variant of 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ, “green; blue”). Also cognate with 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs, “to live”), 性 (OC *sleŋs, “nature”), 姓 (OC *sleŋs, “surname”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 蒼
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蒼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁaŋ/
English deep blue or green

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 蒼
Reading # 1/2
No. 1126
Phonetic
component 		倉
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		倉
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions

蒼

  1. blue; green
  2. white; greyish white

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 蒼
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 麁朗切
Baxter tshangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰaŋX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		cǎng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cong2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蒼
Reading # 2/2
No. 1131
Phonetic
component 		倉
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		蒼
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰaːŋʔ/

Definitions

蒼

  1. Used in 蒼莽／苍莽 (cǎngmǎng, “boundless”).

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

蒼

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. blue
  2. green

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

蒼 (eumhun 푸를 창 (pureul chang))

  1. green
  2. blue
  3. to grow thick

Compounds

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

蒼: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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