莊

See also: 荘

莊 U+838A, 莊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-838A ← 莉 [U+8389] CJK Unified Ideographs 莋 → [U+838B]

Translingual

Traditional	莊
Shinjitai	荘
Simplified	庄

Han character

莊 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女一土 (TVMG), four-corner 4421₄, composition ⿱艹壯)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1033, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31035
• Dae Jaweon: page 1492, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3226, character 5
• Unihan data for U+838A

Chinese

trad.		莊
simp.		庄*
alternative forms		荘 庒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (爿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
臧	*ʔsaːŋ
牂	*ʔsaːŋ
戕	*kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ
贓	*ʔsaːŋ
藏	*zaːŋ, *zaːŋs
奘	*zaːŋʔ, *zaːŋs
臟	*zaːŋs
將	*ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋs
漿	*ʔsaŋ
鱂	*ʔsaŋ
蔣	*ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋʔ
螿	*ʔsaŋ
槳	*ʔsaŋʔ
獎	*ʔsaŋʔ
醬	*ʔsaŋs
鏘	*sʰaŋ
蹡	*sʰaŋ, *ʔshaŋs
嶈	*sʰaŋ
斨	*sʰaŋ
爿	*braːn, *zaŋ
牆	*zaŋ
妝	*ʔsraŋ
莊	*ʔsraŋ
裝	*ʔsraŋ, *ʔsraŋs
壯	*ʔsraŋs
疒	*rnɯːɡ, *zraŋ
床	*zraŋ
牀	*zraŋ
狀	*zraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsraŋ) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 壯 (OC *ʔsraŋs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 莊

1. ^† grassy
2. village; farmstead; hamlet
3. villa; manor
4. thoroughfare; main road
5. place of business; shop
6. (gambling) dealer; banker
7. solemn; serious
8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) student association; student union (Classifier: 支)
9. a surname

   莊存與／庄存与  ―  Zhuāng Cúnyǔ  ―  Zhuang Cunyu (Qing dynasty Confucian scholar)

Japanese

Shinjitai	荘
Kyūjitai	莊

Kanji

莊

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 荘)

1. a manor, a villa
2. a village, a hamlet
3. number of mahjongg games (counter)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ちゃん (chan)
• Kun: おごそか (ogosoka, 莊か)、か (ka)、かざる (kazaru, 莊る)、る (ru)、ほうき (hōki)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

莊: Hán Nôm readings: trang, đồ, dưa, chan, chang

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