葬

See also: 塟

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／会意) : 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 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: page 1046, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3246, character 2
• Unihan data for U+846C

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Chinese

trad.		葬
simp. #		葬
alternative forms		塟／葬

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàng (zang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄤˋ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zàng
    • Wade–Giles: tsang⁴
    • Yale: dzàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzanq
    • Palladius: цзан (czan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zong³
    • Yale: jong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːŋ³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chong
    • Hakka Romanization System: zong
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zong⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (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: tsangH

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
Baxter	tsangH
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zong3

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 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)

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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

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

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 葬 (tsang^H, “burial”).

Noun

葬(そう) • (sō) ^{←さう (sau)?}

1. burial

References

• Jack Halpern's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary

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Korean

Hanja

葬 (eum 장 (jang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

葬: Hán Nôm readings: táng

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