倉

See also: 仓

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 食 (“food”) + 口 (“house”)

Han character

倉 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日口 (OIAR), four-corner 8060₇)

1. granary
2. berth
3. sea

Derived terms

傖, 創, 滄, 愴, 蒼, 搶, 鎗, 凔, 牄, 嗆, 熗, 瑲, 槍, 戧, 瘡, 鶬, 艙, 蹌

References

• KangXi: page 107, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 756
• Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 169, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5009

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Chinese

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trad.		倉
simp.		仓

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cāng (cang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chhng / chhong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'ang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsang
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cong¹
    • Yale: chōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng / chhong
    • Tâi-lô: tshng / tshong
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ³⁴/
  • Note: chhng - vernacular, chhong - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (倉, reconstructed)
Character (倉), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 七岡切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰaŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (倉, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
倉								cāng								‹ tshang ›								/*[s.r̥ ]ˤaŋ/								tshang-kæng 'oriole'
倉								cāng								‹ tshang ›								/*tsʰˤaŋ/								granary
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
倉					1125					倉					陽					0					倉					/*sʰaːŋ/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

倉

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くら (kura)

Compounds

• 校倉
• 内倉
• 営倉
• 穀倉
• 常平倉
• 船倉
• 弾倉
• 武器倉
• 米倉
• 胸倉
• 倉荷
• 倉庫
• 倉皇
• 鎌倉
• 倉主
• 倉敷
• 倉廩
• 小倉餡

Noun

倉 (hiragana くら, romaji kura)

1. warehouse, storehouse
2. granary

Derived terms

• 倉出し
• 倉入れ

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Korean

Hanja

倉 (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倉 (thương)

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