蒼

See also: 苍

蒼 U+84BC, 蒼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84BC ← 蒻 [U+84BB] CJK Unified Ideographs 蒽 → [U+84BD]

Translingual

Han character

蒼 (radical 140, 艸+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿人戈口 (TOIR), four-corner 4460₇, composition ⿱艹倉)

Derived characters

• 濸

References

• KangXi: page 1050, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31627
• Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3266, character 10
• Unihan data for U+84BC

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Chinese

trad.		蒼
simp.		苍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蒼
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-riŋ ~ s-r(j)aŋ (“to live; to be alive; to give birth; raw; green”) (STEDT). May be an old dialect variant of 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ, “green; blue”). Also cognate with 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs, “to live”), 性 (OC *sleŋs, “nature”), 姓 (OC *sleŋs, “surname”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cāng (cang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong¹, cong²
• Min Dong (BUC): chŏng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhong / chhang

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: cāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄤ
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻang1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsang
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cong¹, cong²
    • Yale: chōng, chóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong¹, tsong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cong¹, cong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰɔːŋ³⁵/

Note: cong2 - only in 莽蒼／莽苍.

• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhong
    • Tâi-lô: tshong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhofng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhang
    • Tâi-lô: tshang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhafng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰɑŋ/, /t͡sʰɑŋ^X/

Rime
Character	蒼	蒼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	七岡切	麁朗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰaŋ/	/t͡sʰaŋX/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cāng	cǎng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cong1	cong2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːŋ/, /*sʰaːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蒼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cāng
Middle Chinese	‹ tshang ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁaŋ/
English	deep blue or green
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	蒼	蒼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1126	1131
Phonetic component	倉	倉
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	倉	蒼
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːŋ/	/*sʰaːŋʔ/

Definitions

蒼

1. blue; green
2. white; greyish white

Compounds

• 上蒼／上苍 (shàngcāng)
• 天下蒼生／天下苍生
• 彼蒼／彼苍
• 擎蒼牽黃／擎苍牵黄
• 昊蒼／昊苍
• 暮色蒼茫／暮色苍茫
• 沒頭蒼蠅／没头苍蝇
• 滿心蒼涼／满心苍凉
• 無頭蒼蠅／无头苍蝇
• 白衣蒼狗／白衣苍狗
• 白雲蒼狗／白云苍狗 (báiyún cānggǒu)
• 白髮蒼蒼／白发苍苍 (báifà cāngcāng)
• 白髮蒼顏／白发苍颜
• 皓首蒼顏／皓首苍颜
• 穹蒼／穹苍 (qióngcāng)
• 老蒼／老苍
• 老蒼頭／老苍头
• 莽蒼／莽苍
• 蒼勁／苍劲

• 蒼吾讓兄／苍吾让兄
• 蒼天／苍天 (cāngtiān)
• 蒼峪／苍峪 (Cāngyù)
• 蒼朮／苍术 (cāngzhú)
• 蒼梧／苍梧 (Cāngwú)
• 蒼海／苍海
• 蒼涼／苍凉 (cāngliáng)
• 蒼生／苍生 (cāngshēng)
• 蒼白／苍白 (cāngbái)
• 蒼穹／苍穹 (cāngqióng)
• 蒼空／苍空 (cāngkōng)
• 蒼筤／苍筤
• 蒼翠／苍翠 (cāngcuì)
• 蒼老／苍老 (cānglǎo)
• 蒼耳／苍耳 (cāng'ěr)
• 蒼苔／苍苔
• 蒼茫／苍茫 (cāngmáng)
• 蒼莽／苍莽 (cāngmǎng)
• 蒼蒼／苍苍 (cāngcāng)

• 蒼蠅／苍蝇 (cāngying)
• 蒼蠅拍子／苍蝇拍子 (cāngyingpāizi)
• 蒼蠅紙／苍蝇纸 (cāngyingzhǐ)
• 蒼蠅見血／苍蝇见血
• 蒼霧／苍雾
• 蒼頭／苍头
• 蒼顏／苍颜
• 蒼髯／苍髯
• 蒼鬱／苍郁 (cāngyù)
• 蒼鳥／苍鸟
• 蒼鶻／苍鹘
• 蒼鷹／苍鹰 (cāngyīng)
• 蒼鷺／苍鹭 (cānglù)
• 蒼黃／苍黄 (cānghuáng)
• 蒼黃翻覆／苍黄翻覆
• 蒼龍／苍龙
• 霖雨蒼生／霖雨苍生
• 面色蒼白／面色苍白 (miànsècāngbái)
• 飛蒼走黃／飞苍走黄

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Japanese

Kanji

蒼

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. blue
2. green

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: あお (ao, 蒼); あおい (aoi, 蒼い)
• Nanori: しげる (shigeru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. green
2. blue
3. to grow thick

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Vietnamese

Han character

蒼: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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