滄

See also: 沧

滄	U+6EC4, 滄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EC4

← 滃
[U+6EC3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

滅 →
[U+6EC5]

Translingual

Han character

滄 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水人戈口 (EOIR), four-corner 3816₇, composition ⿰氵倉)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 641, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18007
Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1703, character 1
Unihan data for U+6EC4

Chinese

trad.		滄
simp.		沧
alternative forms		𣳁𣶟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 滄
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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／形声, OC *sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cāng (cang¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cong¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhông
Eastern Min (BUC): chŏng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chhng / chhong

(Teochew, Peng'im): cang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cang
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻang¹
  - Yale: tsāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsang
  - Palladius: цан (can)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cong¹
  - Yale: chōng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsong¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhông
  - Hakka Romanization System: cong^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cong¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng / chhong
  - Tâi-lô: tshng / tshong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhngf, zhofng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³³/, /t͡sʰɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

chhng - vernacular;
chhong - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: cang¹
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshang
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: tshang

Rime
Character	滄
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	七岡切
Baxter	tshang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cong¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	滄
Reading #	1/2
No.	1127
Phonetic component	倉
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	倉
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions

滄

(literary) blue; dark green (of water)
(literary) vast (of water)
(literary) cold; cool
alt. forms: 凔／𰃷 (cāng)
Alternative form of 蒼／苍 (“grey”)

Compounds

References

“滄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

滄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: そう (sō)
Kan-on: そう (sō)
Kun: ひろい (hiroi)、さむい (samui)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

滄: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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