莊

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See also: 荘
莊 U+838A, 莊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-838A
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莋 →

Translingual

Traditional 莊
Shinjitai 荘
Simplified 庄

Han character

莊 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女一土 (TVMG), four-corner 44214, composition ⿱艹壯)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1033, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31035
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1492, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3226, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+838A

Chinese

trad. 莊
simp. 庄*
alternative forms 荘
庒
㽵

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) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 壯 (OC *ʔsraŋs).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chng/choⁿ - vernacular (including surname);
  • chong - literary.
Note:
  • zeng1 - vernacular (“surname; banker; village; shop”);
  • zuang1 - literary (“village; shop”);
  • zang1 - literary (“solemn”).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 莊
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂuɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂuaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂuaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂuaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂuaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡faŋ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂuɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /p͡fɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡suaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡suaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡suaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂuã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂuaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂuɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suɑŋ¹³/
/t͡suə¹³/ ～子
Hohhot /t͡suɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡suɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡so³¹/
Tunxi /t͡sau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕyan³³/
Xiangtan /t͡sɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡soŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡soŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sɔŋ⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡sŋ̍⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡souŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /t͡suaŋ²³/
Rime
Character 莊
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/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhuāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsrjang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*raŋ/
English dignified, grave

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 莊
Reading # 1/1
No. 10305
Phonetic
component 		爿
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		莊
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsraŋ/

Definitions

莊

  1. † grassy
  2. village; farmstead; hamlet
  3. villa; manor
  4. thoroughfare; main road
  5. place of business; shop
  6. (gambling) dealer; banker
    莊閒／庄闲  ―  zhuāngxián  ―  the dealer and the players
  7. solemn; serious
  8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) student association; student union (Classifier: 支 c)
  9. a surname: Zhuang
    莊存與／庄存与  ―  Zhuāng Cúnyǔ  ―  Zhuang Cunyu (Qing dynasty Confucian scholar)

Synonyms

  • (village):
  • (solemn):

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

荘

Kyūjitai

莊

Kanji

莊

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 荘)

  1. a manor, a villa
  2. a village, a hamlet
  3. number of mahjongg games (counter)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

莊 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

莊: Hán Nôm readings: trang, đồ, dưa, chan, chang

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