臧

臧 (Kangxi radical 131, 臣+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈一尸中中 (IMSLL), four-corner 2325₀, composition ⿵戕臣)

• 㵴, 贓, 藏, 𡁧, 𡒤, 𡽴, 𮍄, 𡾻, 𩯩, 𡒉, 𡒥, 𢨑

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 999, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30083
• Dae Jaweon: page 1451, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1410, character 11
• Unihan data for U+81E7

Historical forms of the character 臧
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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. Compare 童 and 民). 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.

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བཟང (bzang, “good; fine”) (Coblin, 1986).

臧

1. (literary) good; right; generous

   • 彼月而食，則維其常。此日而食，于何不臧？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     彼月而食，则维其常。此日而食，于何不臧？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bǐ yuè ér shí, zé wéi qí cháng. Cǐ rì ér shí, yú hé bù zāng? [Pinyin]

     For the moon to be eclipsed,
     Is but an ordinary matter.
     Now that the sun has been eclipsed,
     How bad [lit. not good] it is!

2. (literary) to praise; to commend
3. a surname

   臧克家  ―  Zāng Kèjiā  ―  Zang Kejia (Chinese poet)

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臧

1. ^† (derogatory) slave; enslaved captive

   • 且夫臧獲婢妾，猶能引決，況僕之不得已乎？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     且夫臧获婢妾，犹能引决，况仆之不得已乎？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1st century BCE, Sima Qian, Letter to Ren An. Translated by Burton Watson.

     Qiěfú zānghuò bìqiè, yóu néng yǐnjué, kuàng pú zhī bùdéyǐ hū? [Pinyin]

     If even the lowest slave and scullion maid can bear to commit suicide, why shouldn't one like myself be able to do what has to be done?

2. ^† Alternative form of 贓／赃 (zāng, “booty; loot; stolen goods”)

臧

1. Alternative form of 藏 (“to hide; to store”)

臧

1. ^† Alternative form of 藏 (zàng, “storing pace; depository”)
2. ^† Alternative form of 臟／脏 (zàng, “internal organs, viscera”)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): ぞう (zō)
• Kun: よい (yoi); あつい (atsui); おさめる (osameru)

臧 (eum 장 (jang))

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臧: Hán Nôm readings: tang, tàng

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