倉

See also: 仓
倉 U+5009, 倉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5009
← 倈
[U+5008]
CJK Unified Ideographs 倊 →
[U+500A]

Translingual

Han character

倉 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日口 (OIAR) or 人一日口 (OMAR), four-corner 80607, composition ⿱亽⿸⿴尸一口(G) or ⿱亼⿸⿴尸一口(HTJKV))

  1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №183

Derived characters

Further reading

Wikisource

  • KangXi: page 107, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 169, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5009

Chinese

trad. 倉
simp. 仓*
alternative forms 仺 ancient

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倉
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Odd character Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts





References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 食 (“food”) + 口 (“house”).

Pronunciation


Note: chhng - vernacular, chhong - literary.
Note: cang1 - literary.

Rime
Character 倉
Reading # 1/1
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/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倉 倉
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cāng cāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshang › ‹ tshang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s.r̥]ˁaŋ/ /*tsʰˁaŋ/
English tshang-kæng "oriole" granary

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 倉
Reading # 1/1
No. 1125
Phonetic
component
倉
Rime
group
陽
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
倉
Old
Chinese
/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions

倉

  1. granary
  2. warehouse
  3. (trading) position
  4. (Cantonese) prison
  5. Alternative form of 艙/舱 (cāng).
  6. Alternative form of 滄/沧 (cāng).

Compounds

  • 倉皇/仓皇 (cānghuáng)
  • 倉皇失措/仓皇失措
  • 倉皇無措/仓皇无措
  • 倉神/仓神
  • 倉租/仓租
  • 倉頡篇/仓颉篇 (Cāngjiépiān)
  • 倒倉/倒仓
  • 冷藏倉庫/冷藏仓库
  • 千倉萬箱/千仓万箱
  • 司倉/司仓
  • 四行倉庫/四行仓库
  • 囷倉/囷仓
  • 填倉/填仓
  • 大倉/大仓 (Dàcāng)
  • 太倉/太仓 (Tàicāng)
  • 太倉一粟/太仓一粟
  • 太倉稊米/太仓稊米

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (倉):
  • → Japanese: 倉(そう) (sō)
  • → Korean: 창(倉) (chang)
  • → Vietnamese: thương (倉)
  • → Classical Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠩ (saŋ)
    • Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠩ (saŋ) / сан (san)
    • → Buryat: сан (san), һан (han)
    • → Khamnigan Mongol: сан
    • → Tuvan: саң (sañ)
    • → Written Oirat: ᠰᠠᡊ (sang)
  • → Thai: ฉาง (chǎang)

References

Japanese

Kanji

倉

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

倉(くら) • (kura) 

Kanji in this term
倉
くら
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
  1. Alternative form of 蔵

Derived terms

  • 倉出し
  • 倉入れ

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 倉 (MC t͡sʰɑŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 차ᇰ (chang) (Yale: chang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

  • (granary; warehouse; etc.):
  • (in 창졸 (倉卒, changjol)):
    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [t͡ɕʰa̠(ː)ŋ]
    • Phonetic hangul: [창(ː)]
      • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Wikisource 倉 (eumhun 곳집 창 (gotjip chang))

  1. Hanja form? of 창 (“granary”).
  2. Hanja form? of 창 (“warehouse; storage”).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

倉: Hán Nôm readings: thương, thưng, thơng

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