妝

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See also: 妆, 娤, and 粧
妝 U+599D, 妝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-599D
← 妜
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 妞 →

Translingual

Han character

妝 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女一女 (VMV), four-corner 24240, composition ⿰爿女)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6096
  • Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1033, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+599D

Chinese

trad. 妝/粧
simp. 妆
alternative forms 娤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (爿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臧 *ʔsaːŋ
牂 *ʔsaːŋ
戕 *kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ
贓 *ʔsaːŋ
藏 *zaːŋ, *zaːŋs
奘 *zaːŋʔ, *zaːŋs
臟 *zaːŋs
將 *ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋs
漿 *ʔsaŋ
鱂 *ʔsaŋ
蔣 *ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋʔ
螿 *ʔsaŋ
槳 *ʔsaŋʔ
獎 *ʔsaŋʔ
醬 *ʔsaŋs
鏘 *sʰaŋ
蹡 *sʰaŋ, *ʔshaŋs
嶈 *sʰaŋ
斨 *sʰaŋ
爿 *braːn, *zaŋ
牆 *zaŋ
妝 *ʔsraŋ
莊 *ʔsraŋ
裝 *ʔsraŋ, *ʔsraŋs
壯 *ʔsraŋs
疒 *rnɯːɡ, *zraŋ
床 *zraŋ
牀 *zraŋ
狀 *zraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsraŋ) : phonetic 爿 (OC *braːn, *zaŋ) + semantic 女 (“female”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chng - vernacular;
  • chong - literary.
Note:
  • zeng1 - vernacular;
  • zuang1 - literary.
Rime
Character 妝
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 莊 (18)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 側羊切
Baxter tsrjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ʃɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈ͡ʂiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ʃiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈ͡ʂɨaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ʃiaŋ/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ʃĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 妝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhuāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsrjang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*raŋ/
English adorn (Shuōwén)

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 妝
Reading # 1/1
No. 10304
Phonetic
component 		爿
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		莊
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsraŋ/

Definitions

妝

  1. to put on makeup; to adorn oneself
  2. adornment, makeup and dress
  3. trousseau; dowry
  4. (Wenzhounese) to do; to make

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

妝

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 妆)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

妝 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妝: Hán Nôm readings: Trang

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