滄

See also: 沧

滄	U+6EC4, 滄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EC4

← 滃
[U+6EC3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

滅 →
[U+6EC5]

Translingual

Han character

滄 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水人戈口 (EOIR), four-corner 3816₇, composition ⿰氵倉)

References

KangXi: page 641, character 29

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18007

Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 8

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1703, character 1

Unihan data for U+6EC4

Chinese

trad.		滄
simp.		沧
alternative forms		𣳁𣶟

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (倉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
艙	*sʰaːŋ
倉	*sʰaːŋ
蒼	sʰaːŋ, sʰaːŋʔ
滄	sʰaːŋ, sʰraŋs
傖	sʰaːŋ, zraːŋ
鶬	*sʰaːŋ
凔	*sʰaːŋ
槍	sʰaŋ, sʰraːŋ
搶	sʰaŋ, sʰaŋʔ, *sʰraŋʔ
蹌	*sʰaŋ
瑲	*sʰaŋ
牄	*sʰaŋ
嗆	*sʰaŋs
創	sʰraŋ, sʰraŋs
瘡	*sʰraŋ
愴	sʰraŋʔ, sʰraŋs
鎗	*sʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cāng (cang¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄘㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cong¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhông
Min Dong (BUC): chŏng
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhng / chhong
(Teochew, Peng'im): cang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cang
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻang¹
  - Yale: tsāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsang
  - Palladius: цан (can)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cong¹
  - Yale: chōng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsong¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhông
  - Hakka Romanization System: cong´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cong¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng / chhong
  - Tâi-lô: tshng / tshong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhngf, zhofng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³³/, /t͡sʰɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

chhng - vernacular;
chhong - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰɑŋ/

Rime
Character	滄
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	七岡切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cong¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	滄
Reading #	1/2
No.	1127
Phonetic component	倉
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	倉
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions

滄

(literary) blue; dark green (of water)
(literary) vast (of water)
(literary) cold; cool
alt. forms: 凔
Alternative form of 蒼／苍 (cāng, “grey”).

Compounds

小滄／小沧 (Xiǎocāng)
曾經滄海／曾经沧海 (céngjīngcānghǎi)
歷盡滄桑／历尽沧桑
淒滄／凄沧
滄桑／沧桑 (cāngsāng)
滄桑之變／沧桑之变
滄江／沧江
滄洲／沧洲
滄浪／沧浪 (Cāngláng)

滄浪亭／沧浪亭
滄浪詩話／沧浪诗话
滄海／沧海 (cānghǎi)
滄海一粟／沧海一粟 (cānghǎiyīsù)
滄海微塵／沧海微尘
滄海桑田／沧海桑田 (cānghǎisāngtián)
滄海橫流／沧海横流
滄海遺珠／沧海遗珠 (cānghǎiyízhū)

滄溟／沧溟
滄滄／沧沧
滄瀛／沧瀛 (cāngyíng)
濯纓滄浪／濯缨沧浪
濯足滄浪／濯足沧浪
瀾滄江／澜沧江 (Láncāng Jiāng)
珠沉滄海／珠沉沧海
臨滄／临沧 (Líncāng)

References

“滄”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

滄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: そう (sō)
Kan-on: そう (sō)
Kun: ひろい (hiroi), さむい (samui)

Compounds

滄海
滄溟
滄浪

Korean

Hanja

滄 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滄: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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