See also: 荘子

Chinese

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farm; village
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
trad. (莊子)
simp. (庄子)

Pronunciation 1

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Noun

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莊子

  1. village; hamlet (Classifier: )
Synonyms
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Pronunciation 2

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (18) (13)
Final () (105) (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsrjang tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ʃɨɐŋ/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈ͡ʂiɐŋ/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ʃiɑŋ/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈ͡ʂɨaŋ/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/t͡ʃiaŋ/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/t͡ʃĭaŋ/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʈ͡ʂi̯aŋ/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zong1 zi2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhuāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsrjang › ‹ tsiX › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]raŋ/ /*[ts]əʔ/ /*tsəʔ/
English dignified, grave 1st earthly branch child; gentleman, master

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 10305 17857
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsraŋ/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Proper noun

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莊子

  1. Zhuangzi (an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period)
  2. Zhuangzi (an ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher)
Descendants
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Sino-Xenic (莊子):

Others:

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
そう
Jinmeiyō

Grade: 1
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 莊子 – see the following entry.
荘子そうし
[proper noun] Zhuangzi (an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period)
荘子そうじ
[proper noun] Zhuangzi (an ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher)
Alternative spelling
そうし
荘子しょうこ
[proper noun] a female given name
(This term, 莊子, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Proper noun

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莊子 (Jangja) (hangeul 장자)

  1. hanja form? of 장자 (Zhuangzi)

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Proper noun

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莊子

  1. chữ Hán form of Trang Tử (Zhuangzi).