葬

葬 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一心廿 (TMPT), four-corner 4444₁, composition ⿳艹死廾)

• 髒 𠿺 𩦦

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1046, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3246, character 2
• Unihan data for U+846C

Historical forms of the character 葬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 茻 (“grass”) + 死 (“dead person”) – bury the dead 死 in the grass 茻. Top is now grass radical (艹), while bottom is simplified to 廾, hence graphically 艹 + 死 + 廾.

葬

1. to bury; to inter

   葬身  ―  zàngshēn  ―  to be buried

   葬花詞／葬花词  ―  Zàng Huā Cí  ―  Poem of Burying Flowers (a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber)

   佢老豆葬咗喺和合石。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   keoi⁵ lou⁵ dau⁶ zong³ zo² hai² wo⁴ hap⁶ sek⁶. [Jyutping]

   His father is buried in Wo Hop Shek Cemetery.

   • 子曰：「生事之以禮；死葬之以禮，祭之以禮。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：「生事之以礼；死葬之以礼，祭之以礼。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ yuē: “Shēng shì zhī yǐ lǐ; sǐ zàng zhī yǐ lǐ, jì zhī yǐ lǐ.” [Pinyin]

     The Master replied, "That parents, when alive, be served according to propriety; that, when dead, they should be buried according to propriety; and that they should be sacrificed to according to propriety."

   • 以色列人將他葬在他地業的境內，就是在以法蓮山地的亭拿西拉，在迦實山的北邊。 [MSC, trad.]
     以色列人将他葬在他地业的境内，就是在以法莲山地的亭拿西拉，在迦实山的北边。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 新標點和合本 (Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation), 約書亞記 (Joshua) 24:30

     Yǐsèlièrén jiāng tā zàng zài tā dìyè de jìngnèi, jiùshì zài Yǐfǎlián shān dì de Tíngnáxīlā, zài Jiāshí shān de běibiān. [Pinyin]

     And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

2. to bury in a specified way according to local customs

   火葬  ―  huǒzàng  ―  to cremate

3. a surname: Zang

• (to bury):

• “葬”, 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–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. funeral, bury

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: ほうむる (hōmuru, 葬る, Jōyō)^{←はうむる (faumuru, 葬る, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 葬 (tsang^H, “burial”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

葬(そう) • (sō) ^{←さう (sau)?}

1. burial

葬 (eum 장 (jang))

1. Hanja form^? of 장 (“burial; burial place; burial customs”).

葬: Hán Nôm readings: táng

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