葬

葬 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一心廿 (TMPT), four-corner 4444₁, composition ⿳艹死廾)

• 髒

• KangXi: page 1046, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3246, character 2
• Unihan data for U+846C

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.

葬

1. to bury; to inter

   埋葬  ―  máizàng  ―  to bury

   火葬  ―  huǒzàng  ―  to cremate

   葬花詞／葬花词  ―  Zàng Huā Cí  ―  Poem of Burying Flowers (a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber)

2. to bury in a specified way according to local customs
3. ^† burial place

   • 曹公聞之曰：「馬兒不死，吾無葬地也。」 [MSC, trad.]
     曹公闻之曰：“马儿不死，吾无葬地也。” [MSC, simp.]

     From: Shanyang Gong Zaiji annotation in Sanguozhi vol. 36.

     Cáogōng wén zhī yuē: “Mǎ'ér bù sǐ, wú wú zàngdì yě.” [Pinyin]

     Lord Cao [Cao] heard that [Ma Chao's plan] and said: "If the young horse wouldn't die, I would have no burial ground."

4. a surname: Zang

• (to bury):

• “葬”, 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–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. funeral, bury

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: ほうむる (hōmuru, 葬る, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 葬 (tsang^H, “burial”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

葬(そう) • (sō) ^{←さう (sau)?}

1. burial

葬 (eum 장 (jang))

1. Hanja form^? of 장 (“burial; burial place; burial customs”).

葬: Hán Nôm readings: táng

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