璋

璋 U+748B, 璋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-748B ← 璊 [U+748A] CJK Unified Ideographs 璌 → [U+748C]

Translingual

Han character

璋 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一土卜廿十 (MGYTJ), four-corner 1014₆, composition ⿰𤣩章)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 741, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21211
• Dae Jaweon: page 1150, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1135, character 17
• Unihan data for U+748B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		璋

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
章	*kjaŋ
樟	*kjaŋ
彰	*kjaŋ
漳	*kjaŋ
鄣	*kjaŋ
璋	*kjaŋ
嫜	*kjaŋ
獐	*kjaŋ
慞	*kjaŋ
墇	*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
障	*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
麞	*kjaŋ
蔁	*kjaŋ
暲	*kjaŋ
嶂	*kjaŋs
瘴	*kjaŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhāng (zhang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoeng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhang
    • Wade–Giles: chang¹
    • Yale: jāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jang
    • Palladius: чжан (čžan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoeng¹
    • Yale: jēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyang

Rime
Character	璋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸良切
Baxter	tsyang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiaŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*taŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kjaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	璋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhāng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyang ›
Old Chinese	/*taŋ/
English	(jade) insignium
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	璋
Reading #	1/1
No.	16822
Phonetic component	章
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	章
Old Chinese	/*kjaŋ/

Definitions

璋

1. a small jade ornament that can be hung at the waist or on other items such as fans, swords, or even lanterns
2. jade plaything

Compounds

• 圭璋 (guīzhāng)
• 弄璋 (nòngzhāng)
• 弄璋之喜 (nòngzhāngzhīxǐ)
• 弄璋之慶／弄璋之庆
• 朱元璋
• 珪璋
• 珪璋特達／珪璋特达
• 璋瓚／璋瓒

 

References

• “璋”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

璋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: ひしゃく (hishaku)、たま (tama)、あらわす (arawasu)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、てる (teru)

Korean

Hanja

璋 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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