葬

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

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)

Pronunciation

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

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. funeral, bury

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

Hanja

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

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Han character

• Hán Việt: táng

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