倉

See also: 仓

Translingual

Han character

倉 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日口 (OIAR), four-corner 8060₇, composition ⿱亽⿸⿴尸一口(G) or ⿱亼⿸⿴尸一口(HTJKV))

Derived characters

• 傖(伧), 創(创), 滄(沧), 愴(怆), 蒼(苍), 搶(抢), 鎗(𬬰), 凔, 牄, 嗆(呛), 熗(炝), 瑲(玱), 槍(枪), 戧(戗), 瘡(疮), 鶬(鸧), 艙(舱), 蹌(跄)

Related characters

• 仓 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 756
• Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 169, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5009

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Chinese

trad.		倉
simp.		仓*
alternative forms		仺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倉
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Odd character	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j13026 Bronze inscriptions b08054 b08055 b08056 Small seal script s03774 s03775 Transcribed ancient scripts L32910 L32911 L32912 L32913 L09963 L09964 L09965 L09966 L09967 L09968 L09969 L09970 L09971 L09972 L09973 L09974
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (倉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
艙	*sʰaːŋ
倉	*sʰaːŋ
蒼	*sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ
滄	*sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs
傖	*sʰaːŋ, *zraːŋ
鶬	*sʰaːŋ
凔	*sʰaːŋ
槍	*sʰaŋ, *sʰraːŋ
搶	*sʰaŋ, *sʰaŋʔ, *sʰraŋʔ
蹌	*sʰaŋ
瑲	*sʰaŋ
牄	*sʰaŋ
嗆	*sʰaŋs
創	*sʰraŋ, *sʰraŋs
瘡	*sʰraŋ
愴	*sʰraŋʔ, *sʰraŋs
鎗	*sʰraːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 食 (“food”) + 口 (“house”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): cāng (cang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄤ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): cang¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): cong¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhng / chhong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cang¹ / ceng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cang
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻang¹
    • Yale: tsāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsang
    • Palladius: цан (can)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: cang¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: cang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cong¹
    • Yale: chōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: cong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng / chhong
    • Tâi-lô: tshng / tshong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhngf, zhofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³³/, /t͡sʰɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/

Note: chhng - vernacular, chhong - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cang¹ / ceng¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshang / tshṳng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/, /t͡sʰɯŋ³³/

Note: cang1 - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: tshang

Rime
Character	倉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	七岡切
Baxter	tshang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cong1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s.r̥]ˤaŋ/, /*tsʰˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	倉	倉
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cāng	cāng
Middle Chinese	‹ tshang ›	‹ tshang ›
Old Chinese	/*[s.r̥]ˁaŋ/	/*tsʰˁaŋ/
English	tshang-kæng "oriole"	granary
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	倉
Reading #	1/1
No.	1125
Phonetic component	倉
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	倉
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 倉

1. granary
2. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 艙／舱 (cāng).
3. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 滄／沧 (cāng).

References

• “Entry #5711”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

倉

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: くら (kura, 倉, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 校倉
• 内倉
• 営倉
• 穀倉
• 常平倉
• 船倉
• 弾倉
• 武器倉
• 米倉
• 胸倉
• 倉荷
• 倉庫
• 倉皇
• 鎌倉
• 倉主
• 倉敷
• 倉廩
• 小倉餡

Noun

倉(くら) • (kura) 

Kanji in this term
倉
くら Grade: 4
kun'yomi

1. Alternative form of 蔵

Derived terms

• 倉出し
• 倉入れ

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Korean

Hanja

倉 (eum 창 (chang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

倉: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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