莊

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Translingual[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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

Han character[edit]

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

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

References[edit]

  • 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

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

莊 (simplified 庄, Yale jong1)

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

莊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 荘)

  1. a manor, a villa
  2. a village, a hamlet
  3. number of mahjongg games (counter)

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

莊 (trang, đồ, dưa, chan, chang)

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