莊

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 荘 (Simplified Japanese shinjitai)
• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 + phonetic 壯

Han character

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

1. village, hamlet
2. villa
3. used as a surname

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

莊 (simplified 庄, Yale jong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

莊

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: おごそか (ogosoka)

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

莊 (simplified 庄, pinyin zhuāng (zhuang1), zuó (zuo2), Wade-Giles chuang¹, tso²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

莊 (trang, đồ, dưa, chan, chang)