庄

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 莊 (Traditional; different character in Japan)
• 荘 (Simplified Japanese shinjitai)

  In Chinese 莊 was simplified into 庄, but 庄 already existed as a character. In Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and probably Korean and Vietnamese, 莊/荘 and 庄 remain separate characters.

Han character

庄 (radical 53 广+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈土 (IG), four-corner 0021₄, composition ⿸广土)

1. village, hamlet
2. villa, manor

References

• KangXi: page 343, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9234
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 873, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5E84

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Cantonese

Hanzi

庄 (traditional 莊, Yale jong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

庄 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: そう (sō), しょう (shō), ほう (hō)
• Kun: いなか (inaka), むらざと (murazato)

Proper noun

庄 (hiragana しょう, romaji Shō)

1. A male given name

Suffix

庄 (hiragana しょう, romaji -shō)

1. Alternative form of 荘.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

庄 (traditional 莊, pinyin zhuāng (zhuang1), Wade-Giles chuang¹)