滄

See also: 沧

Translingual

Han character

滄 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水人戈口 (EOIR), four-corner 3816₇, composition ⿰氵倉)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 641, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18007
• Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1703, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6EC4

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Chinese

trad.		滄
simp.		沧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 滄
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal 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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cāng (cang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhông
• Eastern Min (BUC): chŏng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhng / chhong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cang¹

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cong¹
    • Yale: chōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhông
    • Hakka Romanization System: cong^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
• 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
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshang
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshang, tsrhjangH

Rime
Character	滄	滄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	七岡切	初亮切
Baxter	tshang	tsrhjangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡ʃʰɨɐŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂʰiɐŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡ʃʰiɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰaŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨaŋH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡ʃʰiaŋH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡ʃʰĭaŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯aŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cāng	chuàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cong1	cong3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːŋ/, /*sʰraŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	滄	滄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1127	1145
Phonetic component	倉	倉
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	倉	剏
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːŋ/	/*sʰraŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 滄

1. (literary) blue; dark green (of water)
2. (literary) vast (of water)
3. (literary) cold; cool

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Japanese

Kanji

滄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: ひろい (hiroi), さむい (samui)

Compounds

• 滄海
• 滄溟
• 滄浪

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Korean

Hanja

滄 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 滄 (thương)

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