臧
Meanings
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- 1.surname Zang
- 1.old variant of 藏[zàng]
- 2.old variant of 脏[zàng]
- 1.good
- 2.right
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Wiktionary
- 1.good; right; generous
- 2.to praise; to commend
- 3.a surname
- 4.slave; enslaved captive
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 臣 (“eye”) + 戈 (“spear/weapon”) – "slave; prisoner of war" (slaves in ancient China were blinded, hence the 臣 component.) Hence, the original version is 𦣣. The phonetic component 爿 (OC *zaŋ), absent in the oracle-bone script, was added at a later stage (see Yang, 1965, and references therein), leading Shuowen to interpret the character as a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaːŋ): phonetic 戕 (OC *kaːl, *ʔsaːŋ, *zaŋ) + semantic 臣. Perhaps borrowed phonetically to mean "generous". See also 童, 民, and 盲. Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བཟང (bzang, “good; fine”) (Coblin, 1986).
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Components
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