壯

See also 壮

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 爿 + semantic 士

Han character

壯 (radical 33 士+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女一土 (VMG), four-corner 2421₀)

1. big, large
2. robust
3. the Zhuang, an ethnic group living primarily in Guangxi, China

Descendants

• 裝, 奘, 莊, 𤞛

References

• KangXi: page 243, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5643
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 428, character 7
• Unihan data for U+58EF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

壯 (simplified 壮, Yale jong3)

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Japanese

Kanji

壯

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: さかん (sakan)

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Korean

Hanja

壯 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

壯 (simplified 壮, pinyin zhuàng (zhuang4), Wade-Giles chuang⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壯 (tráng, trắng)