荘

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 莊 (Traditional)
• 庄 (Simplified Chinese; different character in Japan)

  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.

Etymology

Simplified from 莊 (爿 → 丬)

Han character

荘 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿中一土 (TLMG))

1. solemn
2. villa
3. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1031, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30890
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 5, page 3208, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8358

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Japanese

Kanji

荘 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: おごそか (ogosoka)

• Style: Simplified Japanese shinjitai
  • Traditional Japanese kyūjitai equivalent: 莊

Suffix

荘 (hiragana しょう, romaji -shō)

1. manor

Alternative forms

• 庄

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Korean

Hanja

荘 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

荘 (pinyin zhuāng (zhuang1), Wade-Giles chuang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

荘 (trang)