藏

藏 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈一尸 (TIMS), four-corner 4425₃, composition ⿱艹臧)

• 臟, 欌, 贜, 鑶

• 蔵

• KangXi: page 1064, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32264
• Dae Jaweon: page 1529, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3311, character 11
• Unihan data for U+85CF

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zaːŋ, *zaːŋs) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 臧 (OC *ʔsaːŋ).

“to hide; to store; depository”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *C-(t)saŋ.

“Tibet”

Borrowed from Tibetan གཙང (gtsang).

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藏

1. (transitive) to hide; to conceal
2. (intransitive) to hide
3. to store; to lay
4. a surname

藏

1. storing place; depository
2. Buddhist or Taoist scriptures
3. Short for 西藏 (Xīzàng, “Tibet”).
4. ^† Original form of 臟／脏 (zàng, “internal organs”).
5. ^† Alternative form of 葬 (zàng, “to bury; burial place”).

藏

1. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwanese Hokkien) to squeeze into
2. (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Yunlin Hakka) to hide

• “藏”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03579

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蔵)

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• Go-on: ぞう (zō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: くら (kura, 藏); かくれる (kakureru, 藏れる); おさめる (osameru, 藏める)

藏 • (jang) (hangeul 장)

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藏: Hán Nôm readings: tàng, tạng

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