葬

See also: 塟

葬 U+846C, 葬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-846C ← 葫 [U+846B] CJK Unified Ideographs 葭 → [U+846D]

Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 葬
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (葬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
髒	ʔsaːŋʔ
葬	ʔsaːŋs

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.

Han character

葬 (radical 140 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一心廿 (TMPT), four-corner 4444₁, composition ⿳艹死廾)

1. bury, inter

Derived characters

• 髒

References

• 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		葬

Alternative forms

• 塟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàng (zang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zong³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chong
• Min Nan (POJ): chòng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tsang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzanq
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zong³
    • Yale: jong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zong³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːŋ³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chong
    • Hakka Romanization System: zong
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zong⁴
    • IPA: /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chòng
    • Tâi-lô: tsòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoxng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sɑŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	葬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	則浪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡saŋH/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑŋH/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zàng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ts]ˤaŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	葬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zàng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsangH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˤaŋ-s/
English	bury
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	葬
Reading #	1/1
No.	16545
Phonetic component	葬
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葬
Old Chinese	/*ʔsaːŋs/

Noun

葬

1. burial

   火葬  ―  huǒzàng  ―  cremation (lit. fire burial)

Verb

葬

1. to bury; to inter

   埋葬  ―  máizàng  ―  to bury

   葬花詞 / 葬花词  ―  Zàng Huā Cí  ―  Poem of Burying Flowers (a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber)

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Japanese

Kanji

葬

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. funeral, bury

Readings

• Goon: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kan’on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: ほうむる (hōmuru, 葬る, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 葬式 (そうしき) (sōshiki): funeral
• 葬 (そう)儀 (ぎ) (sōgi): funeral service
• 土 (ど)葬 (そう) (dosō): burial, interment
• 水葬 (すいそう) (suisō): sea burial
• 鳥 (ちょう)葬 (そう) (chōsō): vulture burial
• 火 (か)葬 (そう) (kasō): cremation

Kanji in this term
葬
そう Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 葬 (tsang^H, “burial”).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

Noun

葬 (hiragana そう, rōmaji sō, historical hiragana さう)

1. burial

References

• Jack Halpern's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: táng

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