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
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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)

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
variant 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]ˁaŋ-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/

Definitions

葬

1. burial

   火葬  ―  huǒzàng  ―  cremation (lit. fire burial)

2. 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)

Compounds

• 下葬 (xiàzàng)
• 亂葬埂／乱葬埂 (luànzànggěng)
• 亂葬崗／乱葬岗 (luànzànggǎng)
• 亂葬崗子／乱葬岗子 (luànzànggǎngzi)
• 厚葬
• 叢葬／丛葬
• 合葬 (hézàng)
• 喪葬／丧葬 (sāngzàng)
• 國葬／国葬 (guózàng)
• 土葬
• 埋葬 (máizàng)
• 天葬 (tiānzàng)
• 安葬 (ānzàng)
• 懸棺葬／悬棺葬
• 改葬 (gǎizàng)
• 敕葬
• 族葬

• 會葬／会葬
• 歸葬／归葬
• 殉葬 (xùnzàng)
• 殉葬品
• 殯葬／殡葬 (bìnzàng)
• 水葬 (shuǐzàng)
• 海葬
• 渴葬
• 濫葬／滥葬
• 火葬 (huǒzàng)
• 燒葬／烧葬
• 營葬／营葬
• 碧葬
• 稿葬
• 臝葬
• 葬儀社／葬仪社
• 葬師／葬师

• 葬玉埋香
• 葬禮／葬礼 (zànglǐ)
• 葬身 (zàngshēn)
• 葬身之地 (zàngshēn zhī dì)
• 葬身火窟
• 葬身魚腹／葬身鱼腹
• 葬送 (zàngsòng)
• 賣身葬父／卖身葬父
• 送葬 (sòngzàng)
• 遷葬／迁葬 (qiānzàng)
• 野葬
• 陪葬 (péizàng)
• 陪葬品 (péizàngpǐn)
• 隨葬／随葬 (suízàng)
• 鳥葬／鸟葬
• 黛玉葬花

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Japanese

Kanji

葬

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. funeral, bury

Readings

• Go-on: 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

葬: Hán Việt readings: táng

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