葬
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See also 塟
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 茻 (“grass”) + 死 (“dead person”) – bury the dead 死 in the grass 茻. Top is now grass radical (艹), while bottom is simplified to 廾, hence graphically 艹 + 死 + 廾.
[edit] Han character
葬 (radical 140 艸+9, in Chinese 15 strokes, in Japanese 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一心廿 (TMPT), four-corner 44441, composition ⿳艹死廾)
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- KangXi: page 1046, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31448
- Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3246, character 2
- Unihan data for U+846C
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
葬 (Yale jong3)
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[edit] Compounds
- 葬式 (そうしき, sōshiki): funeral
- 葬儀 (そうぎ, sōgi): funeral service
- 土葬 (どそう, dosō): burial, interment
- 水葬 (すいそう, suisō): sea burial
- 鳥葬 (ちょうそう, chōsō): vulture burial
- 火葬 (かそう, kasō): cremation
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
葬 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)
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[edit] Hanzi
葬 (pinyin zàng (zang4), Wade-Giles tsang4)
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
葬 (táng)