牆

牆 (Kangxi radical 90, 爿+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女一土人田 (VMGOW), four-corner 2426₁, composition ⿰爿嗇)

• 蘠

• 墻 (Variant form)
• 墙 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 692, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19806
• Dae Jaweon: page 1105, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2378, character 22
• Unihan data for U+7246

Historical forms of the character 牆
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zaŋ) : phonetic 爿 (OC *braːn, *zaŋ) + semantic 嗇 (“wheat in a granary”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

牆

1. wall (Classifier: 面 m; 堵 m mn; 埲 c; 幅 c)

   城牆／城墙  ―  chéngqiáng  ―  city wall

   石牆／石墙  ―  shíqiáng  ―  stone wall

   高牆／高墙  ―  gāoqiáng  ―  high wall

   翻牆／翻墙  ―  fānqiáng  ―  to scale a wall

   柏林牆／柏林墙  ―  Bǎilínqiáng  ―  Berlin Wall

   牆上有張地圖。／墙上有张地图。  ―  Qiáng shàng yǒu zhāng dìtú.  ―  There is a map on the wall.

2. (Mainland China, Internet slang) Great Firewall

   翻牆／翻墙  ―  fānqiáng  ―  to circumvent the Great Firewall

   兩會期間牆高了，我的節點失效了。 [MSC, trad.]
   两会期间墙高了，我的节点失效了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Liǎnghuì qījiān qiáng gāo le, wǒ de jiédiǎn shīxiào le. [Pinyin]

   The Greate Firewall becomes higher during the Two Sessions. My proxy is not working.

3. (Mainland China, Internet slang, usually passive) (the Great Firewall) to censor; to block (a website)

   AO3被牆了。／AO3被墙了。  ―  AO3 bèi qiáng le.  ―  AO3 is blocked by the Great Firewall.

• (wall):

• → Zhuang: ciengz

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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: かき (kaki, 牆)

• 垣牆(えんしょう) (enshō)
• 牆壁(しょうへき) (shōheki)

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

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牆: Hán Nôm readings: tường

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• Nôm: tường

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999