妝

See also 妆, and 娤

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 爿 + semantic 女 (“female”)

Han character

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

1. to adorn oneself, dress up, use make-up

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

妝 (simplified 妆, jyutping zong1, Yale jong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

妝

Readings

• On: ソウ (sō), ショウ (shō)
• Kun: よそおう (yosoou)

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Korean

Hanja

妝 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

妝 (simplified 妆, pinyin zhuāng (zhuang1), Wade-Giles chuang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妝 (trang)